A man in the United Kingdom froze the body of a pensioner and spent the money on shopping. A man in the United Kingdom kept a deceased pensioner’s body in the freezer and spent the money on groceries. The pensioner passed away in September 2018, and his body was discovered in August 2020. According to The Metro, a British man has admitted to storing a pensioner’s body in a freezer for two years.
According to the media outlet, John Wainwright, 71, passed away in September 2018, but his body wasn’t found until August 22, 2020, after it had been frozen. On Tuesday, Damion Johnson, 52, entered a guilty plea to the charge of preventing Wainwright’s legal and dignified burial.
However, it is also alleged that Damion Johnson used the bank information of a deceased pensioner to go shopping and withdraw cash. However, he claimed that the money he used from Mr. Wainwright’s account was technically his and denied three counts of fraud.
Although Mr. Wainwright’s cause of death has not yet been established, it is speculated that the robbery occurred while the two of them were living in a flat in Birmingham’s Holywell Head, in the downtown Cleveland Tower.
“But the 52-year-old denied three counts of fraud by false representation concerning using Mr Wainwright’s bank card to withdraw money from cash machines, pay for goods, and transfer money to his own account between September 23, 2018 and May 7, 2020,” states The Independent. “But the 52-year-old denied three counts of fraud by false representation.”
Johnson was informed that his trial would take place on November 7.
Raglan Ashton, as the mitigating witness, responded when the judge inquired about Johnson’s defense, ” He asserts that he was not dishonest, specifically that he was entitled to Mr. Wainwright’s account funds.
“The arrangement was that funds would be paid into Mr. Wainwright’s account jointly, so he basically maintains that it was his funds in Mr. Wainwright’s account, and in a nutshell, he was entitled to them.”
Daimon Johnsons on bail and free.
