Inquest hears how 38-year-old Laura Winham, who was deaf and had schizophrenia, wrote of struggling to buy food

A vulnerable woman who lay dead unnoticed in a social housing flat for more than three years wrote in her diary that she was starving and running out of food, an inquest has heard.

The “mummified and almost skeletal” remains of 38-year-old Laura Winham, who was deaf and had suffered from schizophrenia, were found in her flat in Woking, in May 2021. Her family, who she had asked to stop contacting her, claim she had been “abandoned and left and to die” by social and mental health services.