Husband Hides Wife's Body In Freezer For 5 Years, To Collect Pension (Image: www.pixabay.com/photos/freezer)

The man hid his wife”s body in a freezer for almost five years in order to collect her pension.

The convict is now sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

His wife died in 2018, suffering from cancer.

A 57-year-old man in Norway preserved his wife”s dead body in a freezer for almost five years in order to collect her pension.

The man was sentenced by a Swedish court on Monday for fraud and falsifying records, reported the Fox News.

The 60-year-old wife died in 2018 suffering from cancer. But the man, keeping her body inside a freezer, allegedly told friends and family that his partner is alive and well. Whenever the woman”s family tried to contact her, he deceived them by saying that, she was either sleeping, unavailable, or she no longer wanted to speak with them.

Losing contact with the woman, her family eventually reported her missing, and the police found the body in March. The man in subsequent interrogation admitted fraud.

“They didn”t want to be buried at a public cemetery but at the farm, actually. So he put her in the freezer to later bury her outside and then it fell by the wayside”, the Fox News quoted the man’s lawyer.

According to some local media reports, the man had stored the body in the freezer which he also used to store food.

“The man also used the freezer for other purposes which I argue means that the deceased person”s sanctity of the grave was violated every time the man opened and closed the freezer, which is an aggravating circumstance”, Fox News quoted the prosecutor”s argument.

The prosecutor also revealed that the accused in the meantime claimed the woman”s pension and tax rebates and earned under $117,000 (Rs 97,07,665.50). He also changed ownership and registrations of vehicles with the deceased’s name.

During the trial, the man claimed that he was still able to communicate with his partner through telepathy, which proved wrong later. The court appointed psychiatrists also confirmed the man did not suffer from any mental illness.

The court has convicted the man on charges of gross breach of civil liberties, gross fraud, mutilating a corpse, and falsification of documents, among others.