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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Matthew Dresch & Adela Whittingham

Woman lay dead in flat for over 2 years but landlord cut off gas and kept taking rent

A landlord reportedly kept taking rent from a tenant when she was dead in her flat for more than two years.

The remains of Sheila Seleoane, 61, were found on the floor of her home in Peckham, London, in February this year. Three neighbours had reported her missing in 2020 and her gas supply had been shut off, but nobody "joined the dots".

Police discovered her "skeletal state" after receiving a phone call from a neighbour, an inquest into her death heard.

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