3 d. ago Funeral director Amie Upton hits back at fury she 'left dead baby watching cartoons'

Amie Upton, from Harehills, Leeds, says her "heart is broken" by the complaints against her and was just "trying to help" grieving families after her own tragedy

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4 d. ago Funeral director Amie Upton started bringing dead babies home after tragic loss

Amie Upton became a funeral director after losing her baby Florence following a violent attack at the hands of her ex Shaun Birchall, who repeatedly rammed a buggy into her

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4 d. ago Funeral director who 'posed dead baby in bouncer watching cartoons' speaks out

Grieving mums told how they found their infants' bodies kept in Amie Upton's living room.

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4 d. ago Funeral director accused of watching cartoons with dead baby breaks her silence

Amie Upton, 38, has been accused of leaving a mum 'screaming' and 'terrified' after seeing her dead child sat in a baby bouncer. She says her 'heart is broken' by the complaints against her

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5 d. ago Terrified mum found her dead baby in funeral director's living room 'watching cartoons'

Amie Upton, 38, has denied placing a dead child in a baby bouncer 'watching cartoons' following a BBC investigation

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5 d. ago Funeral director who 'left dead child in baby bouncer watching cartoons' speaks out

EXCLUSIVE: A funeral director says claims she left a dead child in a baby bouncer 'watching cartoons' were ridiculous and says she only ever wanted to help grieving mums

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5 d. ago Mum screams as she finds funeral director 'watching cartoons' with her dead son in baby carrier

A Leeds funeral director, banned from NHS facilities, is accused of keeping deceased babies at home, with one mum horrified to find her son’s body in a baby bouncer 'watching cartoons'

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5 d. ago Funeral boss 'found watching cartoons with dead babies' by screaming mum

Grieving mums tell how they found their children’s bodies kept in living room of Amie Upton, who has since been banned from NHS mortuaries and maternity wards.

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5 d. ago Funeral director accused of keeping dead babies bodies in her 'mucky' living room defends herself and insists she treated every infant 'with love and care'

Amie Upton, 38, has been accused of putting one child's dead body in a baby bouncer at her terraced home to 'watch cartoons'.

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5 d. ago Families’ horror at funeral director who kept babies’ bodies at home

Woman barred from Leeds mortuaries after one mother said she found dead baby propped up ‘watching’ cartoonsA funeral director has been banned from working with hospitals in Leeds after a mother said she was left screaming when she found her dead baby propped up “watching” cartoons at the woman’s home.Amie Upton has been banned from NHS maternity wards and mortuaries in the city after keeping babies’ bodies at her house in circumstances that a grandmother of another baby compared to a horror film. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Funeral director kept my baby's body in a bouncer in her living room 'watching cartoons'

Zoe Ward, 32, was left 'screaming' in panic after seeing her baby Bleu, who was just three weeks old when he died of brain damage at Leeds General Infirmary in 2021.

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8 d. ago Undertaker who was blasted for making a funeral 'all about himself' with a 'creepy' march in front of grieving family defends actions

The funeral director company posted to TikTok showing an undertaker leading the hearse in what they call a 'centuries-old tradition'.

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8 d. ago Scots mum who waited 13 years to see baby's ashes recognised for helping grieving parents

Julie Morrison was left shocked in 2016 when she got a call to tell her the ashes of her daughter Erin had been found in the Jonathan Harvey funeral director branch on Argyle Street.

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2 w. ago Councils slammed for charging ‘fat tax’ on burials of larger coffins

Funeral director says additional charges for burial of larger coffins discriminate against grieving families

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2 w. ago Funeral director appears in court charged over human remains found at premises

Robert Bush, who is accused of preventing lawful burials, ran three funeral homes in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.

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2 w. ago Funeral director to enter pleas to 63 charges after remains found at premises

Robert Bush was charged after an investigation into Legacy Independent Funeral Directors’ sites in Hull.

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