Jasmine Beverley, whose son Sunny’s funeral was arranged by Bush, has vowed he will ‘pay for what he’s done’ after he pleaded guilty to 30 counts of preventing a lawful burial
Funeral fraudster Robert Bush “will pay for what he’s done”, the mother of a stillborn child whose body was discovered years after his funeral has said.
Bush, who gave grieving families the wrong ashes while their loved ones’ bodies were left at his site for months, has pleaded guilty to 30 counts of preventing a lawful burial. Jasmine Beverley’s son, Sunny, was stillborn in May 2022 and his funeral was arranged by Bush at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors’ site in Hull.
Ms Beverley said she and her husband were initially concerned that they had received his ashes in the same box they had brought Sunny in.
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In an interview with BBC Newsnight, Ms Beverley said: “It was the one that we’d had Sunny in originally and I questioned that and I thought surely he would have been put into the cremator in the box and they won’t have taken him out, so why is it the same box?And my husband said maybe he’s just got a similar one but I noticed a nick in the actual wood and I knew it was the same box.”
Two years later, Ms Beverley, who was seven months pregnant, was told by police that they believed they had found Sunny at Legacy’s site.
Sunny’s mother said: “It was very distressing, I was losing sleep and just feeling so powerless. “The thoughts that were going in my head, that I’m going to lose this baby, and people saying, oh, don’t be silly, don’t feel like that, you’ll be fine, you’re so far now’.
But the thought of what had happened to Sunny, happening to this pregnancy, was playing heavily on my mind, and it ruined the last two months of my pregnancy.”
Discussing Bush, Ms Beverley said: “I think as a human being, we are all capable of doing evil things. Our morality stops us from doing that. And what’s blurred his thought process is something that he’s got to live with.
“He will pay for what he’s done.” Bush could not face the most serious charges in relation to Sunny’s case as Ms Beverley’s son died less than 24 weeks into her pregnancy. The mother is now campaigning for a change in the law and said: “I was able to make his life mean something just by talking about him, by hopefully helping other mothers.”
Police found 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes when they raided Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull in March 2024.
