{"id":70280,"date":"2026-07-31T17:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/70280\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:06:59","slug":"the-monster-behind-the-funeral-home-of-horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/70280\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;monster&#8217; behind the funeral home of horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"The &#039;monster&#039; behind the funeral home of horrors\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f_QqArI7bAQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe &#8216;monster&#8217; behind the funeral home of horrors<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis is the story of a funeral director from Hull who is described as &#8220;pure evil&#8221;.<br \/>\n[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>Police found a scene of horror when they finally raided his premises. <\/p>\n<p>Bodies were left decomposing for months, there was half a tonne of ashes that couldn&#8217;t be identified.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Robert Bush\u2019s charm was a man committing horrors on what prosecutors called &#8220;almost an industrial scale&#8221;\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s now been sentenced to 20 years in prison &#8211; and the government says it is taking action to crack down on rogue funeral operators.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter: Jane Deith<br \/>\nProducer and editor: Suzannah Rogerson<br \/>\nProducer: Harry Peet<br \/>\nCamera: Joe Lajszczuk, Ken McCallum, Justin Oliver and Jack Parkes<\/p>\n<p>Music: Audio Network<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The &#8216;monster&#8217; behind the funeral home of horrors This is the story of a funeral director from Hull&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[20540,36325,366,352,365,6195,57659,6659,58447,58344,327,354,353,58446,6660,341,235],"class_list":["post-70280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-channel-4-news","tag-andy-burnham","tag-ashes","tag-channel-4","tag-channel-4-news","tag-channel4","tag-funeral","tag-funeral-care","tag-funeral-director","tag-funeral-plan","tag-funeral-regulation","tag-hull","tag-international-news","tag-latest-news","tag-legacy-funeral-home","tag-robert-bush","tag-uk-news","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117015726208070236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}