Woman who lay dead in flat for three years wrote she was ‘starving’ in diary

Woman who lay dead in flat for three years wrote she was ‘starving’ in diary

Inquest hears how 38-year-old Laura Winham, who was deaf and had schizophrenia, wrote of struggling to buy food

A vulnerable woman who lay dead unnoticed in a social housing flat for more than three years wrote in her diary that she was starving and running out of food, an inquest has heard.

The “mummified and almost skeletal” remains of 38-year-old Laura Winham, who was deaf and had schizophrenia, were found in her flat in Woking in May 2021. Her family, whom she had asked to stop contacting her, say she had been “abandoned and left and to die” by social and mental health services.

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