Hull funeral inquiry: family to urge minister to regulate industry

The family will meet Alex Davies-Jones, a minister in the justice department.

Several families affected by the Legacy investigation had planned to travel to Parliament.

However, in a letter to the families, Hardy said Humberside Police and the Crown Prosecution Service had raised concerns about potential witnesses taking part and instructed her to rearrange the visit.

Hardy said they agreed that just one family should attend.

Mr Essex and Ms Stockdale will deliver messages to the minister from other families, including Billie Jo Suffill.

Ms Suffill lost her father, Andrew, and brother, Dwane, within five days of one another in July 2022, and used Legacy for their cremations.

She said she still had not received her father’s ashes and feared that she may have the wrong ashes for her brother.

In July, Humberside Police confirmed officers had contacted 163 families linked to ashes recovered from Legacy Independent Funeral Directors. Ms Suffill was not contacted.

The mother of three said it was “absolute torment” not knowing where her father’s ashes were.

“He could be on someone’s mantelpiece, in someone’s necklace,” she said. “I will never know.”