Anne Leitrim lived alone in a ground
floor flat in Tolpuddle Gardens in the
Muscliff area of Bournemouth. Six years
ago neighbours stopped seeing her
going in and out and her car
disappeared.
On Tuesday, a bailiff, an estate agent
and two locksmiths finally discovered
what had happened to Ms Leitrim when
they broke into her flat to discover her
mummified remains. They had finally
broken in over unpaid debts. Dorset
Police have confirmed that they had
been alerted to a body, believed to be
that of a woman in her seventies. The
police have said they are not treating
the death as suspicious.
In an interview with the BBC, one of Ms
Leitrim’s neighbours, John Stanley,
said: “It’s horrifying that, after that
amount of time, why hadn’t anybody
noticed it? Because we thought she
moved out. She owned a car – the car
disappeared – so we automatically
thought the lady’s moved out and that
was it.”
Another neighbour how lives on the
same street, Ruth Evans said: “To be
honest, I’m still coming to terms with it. I
haven’t stopped shaking in two days.
You feel so guilty that we didn’t try
knocking on the door or try to get into
the flat or report it to somebody but we
genuinely thought she had moved
away.”
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