The bodies of two elderly men were found by enforcement agents who were repossessing a funeral parlour in Gosport, Hampshire, which was run by Richard Elkin and Hayley Bell

Two funeral directors have been warned to prepare for jail by a judge after a decomposing body was found in their mortuary room.

Richard Elkin, 49, and Hayley Bell, 42, ran Elkin and Bell Funerals in Gosport , Hampshire, and they were convicted of preventing the decent burial of a body and fraud offences following a trial at Portsmouth Crown Court.

Lesley Bates KC, prosecuting, told the trial that the bodies of two elderly men were found by High Court enforcement agents who had been tasked with repossessing the premises because of unpaid rent and debts.

She said that the room was not refrigerated and water was c

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