Dis Life: 'Disabled people are too often falling off the radar and it's costing lives'

A woman with severe mental illness was found “mummifed” and “almost skeletal” unnoticed for over three years.

Laura Winham was 38 years old. She had schizophrenia. She couldn’t look after herself. She lived in social housing.

There were no routine checks to see if she was ok. Her body was found in 2021. She is thought to have died in 2017.