Campaigners say "full statutory regulation" must be brought in following Legacy funerals scandal.

Relatives of the victims of Robert Bush call for funeral industry regulation outside his sentencing hearing at Hull Crown Court Tristan Essex is standing on the steps of Hull Crown Court, shoulder to shoulder with several others whose lives have been devastated by disgraced funeral director Robert Bush. The 27-year-old is fighting alongside his sister Claire for regulation of the funeral industry, a journey that has seen them take their campaign to Downing Street and resulted in a new pledge from the government "to take urgent action to crack down on rogue funeral operators". Their grandmother Jessie Stockdale was one of Bush's victims – her body one of the 35 found at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors, five months after her funeral was held. The news knocked the family off its feet, Tristan said. Even worse, they learned the ashes they had been given were not Jessie's remains. Tristan Essex says his memories of his nana, Jessie Stockdale, are "tainted" after Bush kept her body for five months after her funeral On Friday, Bush was jailed for 20 years for a litany of crimes. He failed to bury or cremate people, gave bereaved relatives the ashes of strangers and defrauded nearly 200 families out of more than £500,000. It is nearly two years since Tristan and Claire launched their campaign. Outside court, the group's small white posters were printed with a QR code that linked to a parliamentary petition for "full statutory regulation" of the funeral industry.