A vulnerable woman with schizophrenia was found in a "mummified" state in her flat after lying dead for nearly four years, it has emerged
A heartbreaking hand-scrawled note on 38-year-old Laura Winham's calendar read 'I need help' - thought to have been written a short time before her death. Yet no one from social services or her support network had checked on her wellbeing in years.
The Mirror reports how Laura's power bills continued to be paid through housing benefits even after she had died and an annual gas safety check had been registered. In May 2021 her family asked police to break into her flat in Woking, Surrey, after her brother Roy peered through her letter box and saw what he believed was a foot.
