Nobody entered Sheila Seleoane’s flat for years. (Representative Photo)

A girl dwelling under a flat, the place the physique of a lady was discovered, has revealed maggots had ‘infested’ her house. The lady, whose identify is Chantel as per the BBC, mentioned a pile of maggots fell from the ceiling of her home in south London when she modified a lightbulb. Sheila Seleoane, her upstairs neighbour, died in August 2019 however her skeletal stays had been found in February 2022, the BBC report additional mentioned. Her physique was so decomposed that it was not attainable to find out her reason for dying.

“I’ve got them in the bedroom, the living room, and the bathroom. And more or less all over my furniture,” Ms Chantel mentioned, describing the issue she confronted. “You’d sit down on the sofa and after a period of time you’d find a squashed maggot. It was like living in a horror movie.”

Ms Seleoane’s physique was found by the police after they broke down the door of her house following a criticism by neighbours.

The skeleton was wearing a blue pyjama and white prime. The police discovered a dessert inside her fridge which had expired two-and-a-half years earlier, believing she died in 2019, as per the BBC report.

The neighbours are offended with the housing affiliation Peabody, saying it didn’t trouble to test the condominium regardless of a number of alarms raised by folks dwelling there.

Ms Chantel advised Metro when she complained to Peabody, they mentioned their pest management employees members “don’t deal with maggots”.

Another lady Lyesha mentioned nobody came around from Peabody regardless of complaints of a “smell of death”.

“We couldn’t even sleep in the flat. You couldn’t even eat because it was a very, very bad odour,” mentioned Donatus Okeke who lives in the identical constructing. 

Peabody’s chief govt Ian McDermott apologised saying that they didn’t test on Ms Seleoane.

Metro mentioned the residents of the constructing are contemplating whether or not to sue Peabody for compensation.