#funeral-industry

#funeral-industry

Two funeral directors have been jailed for four years over storing bodies in unrefrigerated conditions, while one body was found decomposed in their mortuary room, having been left there for 36 days. Richard Elkin, 49, and Hayley Bell, 42, who ran Elkin and Bell Funerals in Gosport, Hampshire, were convicted of public nuisance, preventing the decent burial of a body and fraud offences following a trial at Portsmouth Crown Court last year. The case has prompted renewed calls for urgent regulation of the funeral sector.

Over the past two and a half years, business has picked up again, part of the reason: Russia's casualties in its continuing invasion of Ukraine.