Shocking Details Emerge On St Paul’s Bay Dead Body: ‘Police Could Smell A Foul Stench Through The Letterbox’
A One News report describes what police saw on site of the house of the woman who yesterday was found to have been dead for three months. Her husband allegedly kept her cadavre lying on the bed and wrapped in blankets because he didn’t want to part from her.
Sources told One News that when police arrived to the scene on Monday evening, nobody opened the door. They smelt a foul smell coming from the letterbox and so they called for the help of the Civil Protection in order to get into the house from the window.
In the house they found a number of animals and a lot of dirt, along with clothes strewn all over the floor. On the left-hand side of the stairs, they found the cadaver of a woman in an advanced state of decomposition. She was on a small bed and covered in blankets.
It was later discovered that she was sick, and One News claims that it could be that she missed her last hospital appointment in November.
The husband was then found in a pub nearby, and the police informed him that they found his wife. He was immediately arrested, however court experts ordered that he be taken to Mount Carmel.
The husband allegedly told his neighbours that she was fine when asked about her around three weeks ago. The neighbours of the British couple residing in St Paul’s Bay said that they asked the woman’s husband about her because they hadn’t seen her in a while. He said that she was “alright” and continued on his way.
The neighbour was completely unaware that she had been dead for months.
The neighbour said that she had learnt of the death of the woman from online news reports. She described the woman as a quiet but educated woman, who was often seen walking to the pubs in the area with her husband in the evenings.
The British High Commission alerted the police that the woman was missing following reports by a relative who informed him that he had been trying to contact her without success for months.
An inquest into the case is being led by Superintendent Mario Haber, Inspector Clayton Camilleri and Surgeant Glen Carabott from the Qawra police station.