Moment police find rotting bodies in decrepit mortuary where 'evil' funeral directors left 46 people to decompose warm rooms - as they are jailed for four years
This is the moment police entered a mortuary where 'evil' funeral directors left 46 rotting bodies to decompose in a warm room. Footage released by Hampshire Police showed the moment an officer entered Elkin and Bell's funeral directors in Gosport, Hampshire, in December 2023. At Portsmouth Crown Court, Elkin shouted 'hope you're happy' at the public gallery as he was taken down. The funeral directors left 46 bodies to decompose in a warm mortuaryThe Judge concluded: 'You continually neglected your duty to refrigerate bodies to an adequate level over a sustained period of time. Andrew Eddy, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: 'Today's sentence marks an important moment — one of the first times funeral directors have been held criminally accountable for denying families a lawful and dignified burial.'
Source: Daily Mail February 20, 2026 14:29 UTC
