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 chest freezer in the living room of their house in the south Wales seaside town of Porthcawl.