A council has launched a review to 'identify any potential missed opportunities to act sooner' after a pensioner lay dead in his flat for six years before his skeletal remains were found. The tragic case of Robert Alton, a 70-year-old retired bookmaker, was revealed after an inquest into his death concluded this week.
The body of Mr Alton was discovered inside his flat on Hemsworth Road in Bolton on March 9 this year, but the inquest found he 'likely' died in May, 2017, said his landlord Bolton at Home in a statement after a coroner recorded an open verdict.
The housing association, Bolton's largest supplier of social housing, owns, manages and maintains more than 18,000 homes across the town.
