Sheila Seleoane: hard to grasp how body was not found for years, says coroner

A general view of Peckham in south London. Peabody Trust, which managed Sheila Seleoane’s block, Lord’s Court, admitted that it had ‘failed to join the dots’. Photograph: Google Street View

It is “difficult to comprehend” that a model tenant could have died and lain undisturbed in her flat for more than two and half years despite not paying her rent and neighbours raising the alarm, an inquest into the death of Sheila Seleoane has heard.

The coroner, Julian Morris, said it was “clear something went wrong” when Seleoane’s repeated failure to engage with her landlord, gas engineers or the police failed to trigger any suspicions.