KINGSTON UPON HULL, United Kingdom (AFP) — A British funeral director faced prison Monday over a scandal that saw bodies left uncremated while relatives were handed other people’s ashes, sparking calls for better regulation of the industry.

Four of the fraud charges involved falsely presenting ashes to women as the remains of their unborn children.

An ex-employee described Robert Bush’s funeral parlour as “something from a horror scene”, prosecutor Chris Paxton said at the start of a five-day sentencing hearing.