Scotland:Woman's body found 5 years after she died in apartment

Call for more vigilance after elderly woman lay dead in flat for 5 years

Published Date: 04 July 2009
By CLAIRE SMITH
AN ELDERLY woman lay dead in her tenement flat for five years before her body was found, it has emerged.

Last night, politicians and charities said the case showed the need for a more co-ordinated approach to monitoring the elderly to prevent similar cases.

The body of Isabella Purves, a "friendly and independent" woman, who would have been 90 this year, was discovered in her home in Rodney Street, Edinburgh, earlier this week.

A spokesman for Age Concern Scotland and Help the Aged Scotland said: "It is not right in any way to have someone lying dead for five years.
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