Benefits fraudster kept mother's dead body in freezer to pocket £80k of her benefits

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Benefits fraudster kept mother's dead body in freezer to pocket £80k of her benefits.

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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 collection of her financial entitlements.The elderly woman died in March 2023, but her son never reported her passing to the authorities.Over the period of concealment, Phillips accumulated £78,190.92 through her state pension, pension credit, attendance allowance, winter fuel payments, cost-of-living payments and housing benefit — all of which would have stopped had her death been disclosed.

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