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CPS to target assets of jailed funeral director
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BBC News
A disgraced funeral director's bank accounts and assets have been frozen, as prosecutors seek to recover cash fleeced from his victims.
Robert Bush was jailed for 20 years at Hull Crown Court on Friday for 67 offences, including denying 30 people a decent and proper burial and giving families the ashes of strangers.
Bush, 48, who ran Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, stole up to £12,000 from charities and sold fake funeral plans.
Sentencing Bush following a five-day hearing, Mr Justice Hilliard said it was clear that he "benefited very substantially" and "obviously lived very well".
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Tams said it "was not a case of somebody that had recently fallen on hard times".