A woman was told she owed Sefton Council £1,600 in unpaid council tax for a house she didn't live in.
Sophie Kelly-Sullivan, from Bootle, was notified she had a "final notice" by her mum's former neighbour, despite the fact she didn't live in the house. Following the death of her mum on March 15, a new family has moved into the home on Ruskin Close in Bootle. Sophie bought a house of her own and the 24-year-old fmoved out of her mum's house on March 15, the same day the 60-year-old died in hospital after a short battle with illness.
By default the council named Sophie as the sole occupier of the property and failed to pick up that a new tenant had in fact moved into the Regenda Homes owned house. Sophie told the ECHO: "They had been sending letters to my mum's house which were being redirected to my neighbour and I wasn't aware of any of these until my brother went to pick them up.
