Son kept father's body in bed for five months!

Source: Mail Online

A man left his father's dead body in bed for nearly five months so he could claim his benefit payments - even telling his innocent 10-year-old daughter that her grandfather was just asleep.

Christopher Blackburn was jailed for three years after police found the body of his father Guy, 54, on a bed in the living room of his home in Penwortham, Lancashire.

The macabre discovery was made after neighbours raised concerns when they did not see the elder Mr Blackburn for five months.

Blackburn had been living at the house alongside the body but kept quiet about his father's death as he pocketed nearly £2,000.

The 29-year-old, now of Birkby, Huddersfield, admitted preventing a lawful and decent burial of a dead body between October 31, 2010 and March 22 last year.

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