It comes after Bush wrote in August to families impacted by his crimes to express regret and said he was “deeply sorry”.
At the week long sentencing at Hull Crown Court in the summer, the court heard that Bush breached the trust placed in him by grieving families “on an almost industrial scale”, by keeping bodies for months after they should have been cremated, giving out the wrong ashes, taking money for funeral plans without making any of the arrangements, and stealing charity donations collected at services.
The case was described as the largest and most complex investigation in Humberside Police’s history by the force’s Detective Superintendent Alan Curtis.
Following the sentence, he said: “We seized just short of 3,000 exhibits, 12,000 items of disclosure, 800 witness statements were taken and over 300 victims affected, but in reality it is impossible to know how many people have truly been affected by this case.
