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It is not uncommon. I posted another story about someone else a week or two ago. It happens. Not sure how they were still smelling the corspe two years later though, but did no one put two and two together? Not seeing the neighbor, a ghastly odor? Hello?
The neighbors did, and they reported the problems. The smell, the mail stacking up, etc. But they couldn't get anyone to investigate.
There will probably be more of these situations. The Covid shutdowns and stay at home orders along with the eviction moratoriums (not sure if they had those in London) had landlords unable to collect rent or even able to check on their properties. I've heard of tenant's refusing entry to their landlords due to Covid concerns. People stopped visiting their family members out of abundance of misguided caution. Kids stopped going to school. Workers lost their jobs and went on unemployment.
Those poor kids in TX found alone and starving with the corpse of their dead brother was another such case.
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Awful. No one responded to all these complaints of a foul odor and mail backing up, and also the rent not being paid, and apparently this lady had zero friends and family who wondered how she was.
The weird thing is that it does sound as though someone did, in fact, try to enter the apartment to check out a potential gas leak but they weren't able to enter it. I wonder if she had internal locks on the door (dead bolt, chain, etc) which made entry from the outside not so easy.
It's sad, that this lady had no family or close friends missing her.
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