Arrest footage of Christopher Phillips after woman found in freezer. A man has been jailed after keeping his dead mother’s body in a freezer for nearly three years while continuing to collect more than £78,000 in her benefits. Christopher Phillips, 60, previously admitted preventing the lawful and decent burial of Silvia Phillips, 89, at their home in Porthcawl. He also pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by failing to notify the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), as well as Bridgend County Borough Council, that his mother had died. At Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Monday, Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, the Recorder of Cardiff, sentenced Phillips to two years and four months’ imprisonment. Phillips received a total of £78,190.92 in state pension, pension credit, attendance allowance, winter fuel payments, cost-of-living payments and housing benefit, which would have stopped had Ms Phillips’ death been reported. Judge Lloyd-Clarke said: “You continued to collect her prescriptions and misled medical professionals about her whereabouts, lying when enquiries were made about your mother, repeatedly telling medical staff that she did …