UK - Two arrested, 34 bodies removed during investigation into funeral directors, Hull, 10 March 2024

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Call for Legacy Funeral Home unidentified ashes to have 'special place' of rest

Call for 'special place' to lay unidentified ashes from Legacy Funeral Home

Loved ones affected by the Legacy investigation will be consulted

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Unidentified ashes 'should have dedicated place of rest' amid scandal

Unidentified ashes 'should have dedicated place of rest' amid scandal

The investigation into Legacy Independent Funeral Directors is ongoing

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Hull Legacy funeral home inquiry: About 200 people affected by 'fake funeral plans' - MP

MP Emma Hardy is appealing for banks to refund those who took out policies from a Hull funeral firm.

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Hull Legacy inquiry: Second funerals begin for identified bodies

Several families say DNA tests on their loved ones have confirmed their identities.

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Both of the main professional bodies for the funeral profession in the UK have sent out general notices to all members, indicating that local councils across the country will be carrying out impromptu and unannounced inspections of funeral homes, with immediate effect.

Not specifically about Legacy per se, but certainly as a result of their appalling actions and hopefully it will both reassure people about funeral directors in general and pick up any others who are bad actors. A step in the right direction at least. My hope is that they start with the FDs who aren't members of the professional bodies (like Legacy) as at present those aren't being inspected by anyone.

 

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Company to be dissolved, with substantial debts to the council which they were paying off in instalments before one of their staff reported them to the police on 6 March over the way they were storing bodies.

Legacy funeral firm to be dissolved over £40k unpaid debts

Legacy Independent Funeral Directors owed more than £40,000 in unpaid council fees, a court heard.

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Second funeral for Hull great-grandmother found in Legacy probe

A funeral is held for one of the 35 people found at a funeral home at the centre of a police probe.

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Funeral industry concern 'not limited' to Hull, says Government

Ministers write to all councils in light of the probe into Legacy Independent Funeral Directors.

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Britain's 'Wild West' funeral homes to be probed by police

Authorities are investigating businesses in London , Oxfordshire, Newcastle, Hampshire, East Yorkshire and Scotland over missing ashes and bodies left to rot.

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Britain's 'Wild West' funeral homes to be probed by police

Authorities are investigating businesses in London , Oxfordshire, Newcastle, Hampshire, East Yorkshire and Scotland over missing ashes and bodies left to rot.

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Clearly, Legacy weren't the only funeral directors up to no good. Here's the rather similar sounding Scottish case.

BBC News - Funeral directors expelled over missing ashes probe

Funeral directors expelled from UK body over missing ashes probe

Officers searched A Milne Funerals Ltd's office in Springburn earlier this month and recovered 19 containers with ashes.

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