The sentencing hearing of former Legacy funeral director Robert Bush is due to start at Hull Crown Court today.
The case was listed for sentence after, in April, he changed his pleas to guilty on 31 charges, including 30 of preventing the lawful and decent burials of dead people and one offence of theft from charities.
Bush originally denied the offences and a trial was due to be held in October. He had already admitted 36 fraud-related offences.
Bush, 48, formerly of Kirk Ella, but later of East Busk Lane, Otley, West Yorkshire, was involved with the running of the Legacy funeral homes which had sites in Hull and Beverley.
He originally entered pleas to 67 charges during his second appearance at Hull Crown Court last year. Two extra fraud charges had been added to the previous ones.
Bush had, at the earlier hearing, denied 30 charges involving preventing the lawful and decent burial of dead people and he also denied one offence of theft from a series of charities. He admitted 30 offences of fraud by false representation to the families or, in one case, a friend of a deceased person.
He also admitted fraudulent trading and five offences of fraud by false representation to customers of Legacy Funeral Homes or individual people. But at the latest hearing, Bush changed his pleas to guilty on the matters which he had originally denied.
The 30 charges involving preventing the lawful and decent burial of dead people and the one offence of theft were put to him again. He entered guilty pleas to them all.
Bush has previously been allowed bail, including conditions of residence at his address and reporting to police. The sentencing hearing, listed for up to five days, will be before High Court judge Mr Justice Hilliard.
When an eight-week trial was originally fixed in the case for October 5 this year, it was due to take place at Sheffield Crown Court. But it emerged in January this year that the trial was being moved back to Hull Crown Court after it was decided that the case could, after all, now be accommodated at the Hull court.
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