Woman Stores Mother’s Body In Freezer For 10 Years To Collect Monthly Pension

A woman kept the body of her dead mother in a freezer for Ten years so that she could carry on collecting her £-1700 pension.

The 90-year-old corpse was reported to have been discovered by detectives when a probe was launched into the alleged social security fraud case.

The 55-year-old culprit who was living in a detached house in the picturesque village of Horsarrieu, close to Pau, in South West France, was reported to have kept her mother’s remains at the end of the garden.

A source within the prosecution counsel said: “They were hidden in a freezer, and there had been no report of the mother’s death.

“The freezer was not connected to the electricity supply going into the house. It was just a hiding place.”

The 55-year-old suspect who remains unnamed was reported to have been first interviewed by gendarmes on Tuesday when she claimed her mother had died seven years ago. Investigators however noticed that there had been no medical fees claimed by the mother since 2007 which further suggested that the time of death was more likely to be a decade ago.