Man lived at home with dead brother for 18 months
Thu 5 February, 2004 04:49
LONDON (Reuters) - A pensioner did not notice his brother had been dead for 18 months despite sharing a mobile home with him.
When Herbert Silver, 72, finally called police and told them his brother George, 75, had died, they went to the bachelors' home expecting to find a body. Instead they found a skeleton, newspapers reported on Thursday.
"I admit that I didn't go into his room for a few hours, a few days...well quite a while actually," Herbert Silver told the Daily Telegraph.
Silver said he had thought it a "bit odd" when his brother failed to emerge from his bedroom in the tiny home they shared in Blissford, Hampshire, but told the Daily Mirror:
"George liked to keep to himself, and to be honest so do I." A postmortem indicated George Silver had been dead for up to 18 months.
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