Only two people attended the funeral of Sheila Seleoane in April: her estranged brother and a representative from Peabody, the housing association responsible for the block of flats where she had lived, who arrived very late.
Two months earlier, Sheila’s skeletal remains had been found on the sofa in her third-floor south London flat, where they had lain undetected for an estimated two and a half years, despite repeated attempts by neighbours to persuade the police to break down her door and check on her welfare.
