Peckham flat death: Peabody sorry for not spotting dead woman

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Peckham flat death: Peabody sorry for not spotting dead woman

By Harry Low
BBC News

Published 1 day ago

A housing group that did not realise one of its residents had been dead for two and a half years has apologised.

Sheila Seleoane, 58, was found in her Peckham flat in February and had to be identified by dental records.

Residents repeatedly told Peabody of a foul stench and maggots in summer 2019. It only made one "proactive attempt" to contact the tenant and cut off her gas.

"We weren't asking the fundamental question: is Sheila OK?" Peabody's chief executive Ian McDermott admitted.

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According to Wilson, the album is written from a female perspective, and the concept and story are inspired by the case of Joyce Carol Vincent, where a woman living in a large city dies in her apartment and no one misses her for over two years, despite her having family and friends. Wilson explained:

"The basic story, or concept of the record – it's about a woman growing up, who goes to live in the city, very isolated, and she disappears one day and no one notices. There's more to it than that. Now, what's really interesting about this story is that your initial reaction when you hear a story like that is, 'Ah, little old bag lady that no one notices, no one cares about.' [Vincent] wasn't [like that]. She was young, she was popular, she was attractive, she had many friends, she had family, but for whatever reason, nobody missed her for three years.

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2. All the lonely people. Where do they all come from?