The bailiffs who were called to visit a U.K. home were probably not expecting to find the dead body of a 58-year-old nurse who was mummified seven years earlier.
Anne Leitrim, 58, was found in her Muscliff home, just a few miles from the sound shore of the U.K., because of her unpaid mortgage.
Leitrim was a neonatal nurse at Homerton University Hospital in east London where she was under a "final warning" for allegedly making inappropriate conduct towards a child in her care, Daily Mail Online reported. A back-to-work plan was in place, according to hospital officials.
When she failed to return to work, she was put on unauthorized absence in August 2007 and her employment was terminated that November.
Her cause of death may never be known, as the advanced state of her mummification is making such tests impossible to conduct, reported Mail Online. Coroner Sheriff Payne suggested that suicide could be a possibility, citing a "vague" note found in her home.
"My doctors has done anything wrong. I love my babies. Goodbye Janet," read the note.
After Leitrim was found, it was revealed that she was taking anxiety medication for 10 years prior to her death, Mail Online reported.
Not much else is known about who Leitrim was as a person.
Payne told Mail Online she didn't have much of a social life and most people didn't know who she was. Her neighbors assumed she just moved away and her sister, Katherine Clarke, said Leitrim lost touch with the family over 20 years ago, although she didn't know why.
Campaigner Esther Rantzen is urging people to check on their neighbors during the holidays to avoid a similar tragedy from occurring in the future, reported The Daily Echo.
