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Article: ISABELLA DEAD IN HER FLAT FOR FIVE YEARS; Neighbours tell of their horror as old woman's body is found in home.(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2009
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Byline: Lynn Davidson
A LONELY old lady lay dead in her flat for five years because no one bothered to check on her.
Isabella Purves, who would have been 90 this year, was last seen in 2004.
But local residents who used to see her every day assumed she had simply moved away or gone into a home.
Isabella was only found after people living below her top-floor flat complained to the council that water was dripping through their ceiling.
Police were sent to investigate the leak. They discovered Isabella's remains after wading ...