The plane had just landed at London Heathrow
Police bodyworn camera shows the moment a shocked-looking Robert Bush was arrested on a plane amid a major investigation at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull.
The arrest on March 10, 2024, came just days after 34 bodies were recovered from the firm’s Hessle Road branch. In the footage, released by Humberside Police today, Bush is seated on the American Airlines flight at around 2:30pm when police board.
As officers make their way down the aisle of the packed plane, which has just landed at London Heathrow, a flight attendant’s voice is heard asking people to remain seated.
The officer in the lead then stops at a row of seats and asks, “Who is Robert? Can you stand up and come with us outside, please?”
Bush, who looks stunned, is permitted to gather his belongings from the overhead cabin and is then escorted through the airport. He is then told he is being arrested on suspicion of prevention of a lawful and decent burial, fraud by false representation and fraud by abuse of position.
The footage can now be released following Bush’s submission of all guilty pleas at Hull Crown Court this morning, which we have been covering live from court.
Bush, now 48, formerly of Kirk Ella, but recently of East Busk Lane, Otley, West Yorkshire, was the director of Legacy Independent Funeral Directors.
At court today, Bush changed his pleas on 30 charges of preventing a decent burial of a dead body, and one charge of theft of money from charities.
At a plea hearing last year, Bush previously denied those 31 charges, and admitted to 36 fraud-related offences. Journalists from national outlets were gathered outside the court in the city centre from 8am today to report on the high-profile case.
An eight-week trial was due to take place in October, but the change to guilty pleas means that Bush’s next appearance at court will be his sentencing hearing which is expected to take place July.
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