A landlord reportedly kept taking rent from a tenant when she was dead in her flat for more than two years. Sheila Seleoane's body was found on the floor of her home in February this year.
Three neighbours had reported the 61-year-old missing in 2020 and her gas supply had been cut off, but nobody “joined the dots”. Police eventually went to her home and found her “skeletal state” after receiving a phone call from a neighbour, an inquest into her death heard.
Southwark Coroners Court was told the former medical secretary, from London, last paid her rent in August 2019. She then fell behind on her payments and an application was later submitted for the rent to come out of her benefits.
