Man jailed for keeping dead mother’s body in freezer and pocketing her benefits

A man in the Welsh seaside town of Porthcawl has been jailed after keeping his dead mother's body in a chest freezer in their shared living room for almost three years. According to The Guardian, sixty-year-old Christopher Phillips, who had been his mother Sylvia's primary carer since 2008, collected more than seventy thousand pounds in her benefits and other funds during that period. He was sentenced to two years and four months in prison, the paper reports.

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