A 60-year-old man from Wales has been jailed after keeping his deceased elderly mother's body in a chest freezer for almost three years while continuing to receive over £78,000 in pension and benefit payments in her name.
Christopher Phillips from Porthcawl, South Wales, was sentenced to two years and four months in prison at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court after his admission that he failed to report his 89-year-old mother, Sylvia Phillips, who had died in March 2023, and prevented her from receiving a lawful burial.
