The body of a "popular" mum was found partially eaten by her dogs.
Police were called to the flat of Sarah Elizabeth Jay on Saturday April 23 of this year. After officers noted a number of flies at the window of her home on Warwick Road, Lytham, they looked through a gap in the curtains to see the 54-year-old lying on the bed.
When PC Rebecca Bell went inside the flat she 'instantly noticed the smell of death' and found Sarah dead on the bed. Her skull, neck and chest were badly decomposed and PC Bell returned to her colleague outside and said: "It's a skeleton."