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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Matthew Weaver and agencies

Family of woman who lay dead for three years had raised alarm, inquest hears

Laura Winham.
Laura Winham’s family previously said she had been “abandoned and left to die” by social and mental health services. Photograph: Hudgell Solicitors/PA

The family of a vulnerable woman whose dead body lay in her social housing flat unnoticed for more than three years had raised concerns about her welfare two months before she was discovered, an inquest has heard.

Laura Winham’s remains were found by her brother in her flat in Woking, Surrey, in May 2021, after the family asked police to break in. They previously said she had been “abandoned and left to die” by social and mental health services.

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