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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Sebastian Mann and Matt Watts

Safeguarding improvements promised after mother found pushing decomposing dead daughter around market

17 & Central shopping centre, Walthamstow - (Google/ Google Maps)

A safeguarding partnership in Waltham Forest has vowed to improve after a shocking incident where a mother was found pushing her dead daughter in a wheelchair round a shopping centre.

Joan Kathleen Turnell, then 77, had kept her daughter Tracey’s dead body in their shared flat in Leyton, east London, for over a year before she was discovered in November 2023.

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