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Man jailed after keeping mother’s body in freezer for nearly three years while collecting her benefits
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Man jailed after keeping mother’s body in freezer for nearly three years while collecting her benefitsA routine welfare check uncovered a secret that had been hidden for nearly three years.
Prosecutors said Phillips concealed his mother’s death, misled authorities and unlawfully collected more than £78,000 before the truth finally emerged.
The court heard he bought a chest freezer just two days later and placed her body inside it in the living room.
Christopher Phillips kept the body of his mother Sylvia Phillips in the chest freezer in the living room of their house for three years.
He withdrew money from her savings and received £78,190.92 through her state pension, pension credit, attendance allowance, winter fuel payments, cost of living payments and housing benefit.