An anguished mother kept the body of her dead daughter locked in a bedroom cupboard for four months.
Pristine Salem could not bear to let Sophiene, 16, be taken from the family home.
Neighbours had noticed a smell coming through the walls but thought there was an infestation of rats.
Sophiene’s body was finally discovered on Wednesday by bailiffs who broke into the house.
The death is being treated as suspicious at this stage. A post mortem failed to establish the cause and toxicology tests are being carried out.
But Sophiene is known to have had heart problems and police believe it likely her death will turn out to be from natural causes.
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