In this bungalow Agnes, 70, lay dead for a year.. while her family lived in the next room.(News)

From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: August 6, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: DAMIEN LANE and TOM GILLESPIE

GARDAI were last night preparing to question a family who lived with the body of their dead sister for more than a year.

A doctor who called to examine another sister found the decomposed remains of Agnes Lyons, 70, tucked up in her bed at the remote bungalow in Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo.

It's understood that Agnes had shut herself off from the world and her brother Sonny, 74, and sister, Mary Ellen, 65, many years a...