Funeral boss will pay for what he did, says baby's mum

The mother of a stillborn baby boy who was found at an undertakers almost two years after his funeral says the funeral director "will pay for what he's done".

Jasmine Beverley's son, Sunny Beverley-Conlin, was stillborn in May 2022 and his funeral was arranged by Robert Bush, of Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull.

Bush, 48, gave grieving families the wrong ashes while their loved ones' bodies were left at his site for months. On Thursday at Hull Crown Court, he admitted 30 counts of preventing a lawful burial and one of theft from 12 charities.

Bush could not face the most serious charges in relation to Sunny's case as Beverley's son died less than 24 weeks into her pregnancy.

She is now campaigning for a change in the law.

She said she and her husband Ben Conlin were initially concerned when they received Sunny's ashes in the same box they had brought him in.

She told BBC Newsnight: "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."

The couple were informed by police in 2024, when Beverley was seven months pregnant, that Sunny's remains were believed to have been found at Legacy's site.

"It was very distressing, I was losing sleep and just feeling so powerless," she said.

"The thoughts that were going on 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."

In a previous court hearing in October 2025, Bush admitted deceiving three other women into thinking ashes he gave them were those of their unborn babies.

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."

She says she refuses to let the scandal define her son's legacy.

"I was able to make his life mean something just by talking about him, by hopefully helping other mothers."

Humberside Police began investigating the company in March 2024 after a "call of concern for the deceased". At the time 35 bodies and the ashes of at least 163 people were recovered from the Hessle Road site.

Bush is due to be sentenced on 27 July for a total of 67 charges, including fraud by false representation and another of fraudulently running a business, relating to the sale of funeral plans.

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