A woman’s body stayed in her apartment for two and a half years without anyone realizing the high was fake. The case took place in London and angered residents of the building, which is managed by a housing association that provides housing for people in financial difficulties. The information comes from the BBC.
According to the BBC, the association asked the government to pay the victim’s rent, and the request was granted without authorities verifying that the beneficiary was alive. This is how the rent was paid for months.
The skeleton of 58yearold secretary Sheila Seleone has been found by police. She was wearing blue pajama bottoms and a white blouse. The initial suspicion is natural death. Nonetheless, local residents want to sue the association. This is because they consider it unacceptable for a person to die and go almost 3 years without anyone discovering the body.
Neighbors suspected that something might have happened to the secretary. In August 2019, a resident on the ground floor went to change a lightbulb and maggots fell from the ceiling.
“There were maggots in the bedroom, living room and bathroom. And more or less all over my furniture,” she recalls. “You sat on the couch and after a while you found a crushed maggot,” she says. “It was like living in a horror movie,” the resident told the BBC.
Other local residents report that they made contact with the association months after the death, but no effective action was taken.
Nevertheless, according to the BBC, Sheila paid the rent on time until her death. After that, the association tried to contact them by letter, email and messages, but no staff went to the property to check what had happened. He merely asked the government to take over the payment.
The association told the BBC it was “devastated” by what happened to Sheila and had been “transparent about what went wrong”.