Christopher Phillips, 60, was jailed on Monday after admitting to keeping the body of his mother Silvia, 89, frozen in the living room of their home in Poplar Crescent, Porthcawl. Phillips, who also fraudulently received more than £78,000 in benefits following her death, was described by neighbours as “quiet” and someone who “kept himself to himself”. Following her death, for which the cause remains unknown, Phillips purchased a chest freezer and used this to store her body inside the living room of the property. Another neighbour said it was “creepy” to learn that the body of Ms Phillips had been frozen in the living room of the property for years. Phillips received a total of £78,190.92 in state pension, pensions credit, attendance allowance, winter fuel payments, cost-of-living payments and housing benefit payments, which would have ceased had Ms Phillips’ death been reported.