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A British housing association apologized after discovering a tenant’s body in his home possibly six years after he died.
“Everyone at Bolton at Home has been deeply shocked by this, and we realize it will concern and upset people to learn his body remained undiscovered for such a long time,” Noel Sharpe, chief executive of Bolton At Home, said in a statement.
“It’s completely unacceptable to us that something like this has happened, and we’ve taken action to reduce the risk of it happening again,” Sharpe added. “The reason we didn’t discover Robert’s death for so long is because our previous procedure, while meeting legal requirements, wasn’t strong enough to prevent something like this happening.”
The association discovered the corpse of Robert Alton in his apartment. A coroner determined Alton would have died in 2017 at the age of 70, his death going unnoticed since he continued to pay rent through automatic rent payments funded by housing benefits.
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