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Benefits fraudster kept mother's dead body in freezer to pocket £80k of her benefits
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The Guardian
Man jailed for keeping dead mother’s body in freezer and pocketing her benefits
Christopher Phillips, who had been his mother Sylvia’s primary carer since 2008, given two years and four months in prison
A man has been jailed for keeping his dead mother’s body in a freezer at their shared home for almost three years, during which time he received more than £70,000 of her benefits and other funds.
Christopher Phillips, 60, stored the body of Sylvia Phillips, a retired company secretary, in the ch…
3 Aug, 12:38
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Benefits fraudster kept mother's dead body in freezer to pocket £80k of her benefits
A 60-year-old man from Porthcawl who stored his deceased mother's body in a chest freezer for close to three years while continuing to draw her state pension and benefits has been jailed for two years and four months.
Christopher Phillips was sentenced at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court after admitting three charges, among them the failure to lawfully and decently bury his mother Sylvia Phillips, 89, and the fraudulent co…
3 Aug, 16:17