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For days, neighbours reported the presence of strong smells and bluebottles in their flats. No-one had seen Anne-Marie or her son. But nobody checked to se if they were alright
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WARNING signs which could have led to the toddler left alone with
his mother's dead body for two weeks being found sooner were ignored,
it emerged today.
Despite neighbours complaining to the building's concierge several
times of a strong smell coming from the flat and the presence of
flies, nothing was done.
Three-year-old Michael McGarrity, who survived on soft drinks,
crisps and other scraps of food, was found in appalling conditions
when police broke in to the Leith flat wh...
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