Elderly woman lay dead in flat for FIVE years!!!

The badly decomposed remains of an 89-year-old woman were discovered in her flat five years after she died, police revealed today. 

Isabella Purves' body was only found after a downstairs neighbour noticed water dripping through the ceiling of her tenement flat and reported it to the local council. 

Officers forced their way into her flat, fighting through the piles of unopened mail which had gathered behind her front door, before making the gruesome discovery. More...

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