Woman may have lain dead for years

Jul 3 2009

The body of a pensioner may have lain undiscovered for five years in an Edinburgh city centre flat.

Tests are being carried out to confirm the identity of the body of the woman, named locally as Isabella Purvis, who would have been 90 this year.

Officers forced their way into the flat in the Canonmills area of Edinburgh after a neighbour reported water dripping through the ceiling.