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Christopher Phillips, 60, pleaded guilty to several crimes, including fraud, after the police found his mother’s body in a freezer in his home. A 60-year-old man from Wales was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Monday after concealing his mother’s death by hiding her body in a freezer for years. Christopher Phillips pleaded guilty in March to preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body and to fraud by false representation, the South Wales Police said in a statement . According to the police, officers found the body of his mother, Sylvia Phillips, in a freezer in his home in Porthcawl, a town in southern Wales, in February. Police officers said they had been called to the address to conduct a welfare check on Ms.
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Phillips received about £78,000 (around $105,000) in welfare benefits and pension payments in the period following his mother’s death that should have stopped after she died, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.
