Body of ‘wonderful’ woman, 75, found in house months after dying

Neighbours person paid tribute to a ‘wonderful’ pensioner whose assemblage was discovered astatine her northbound London location months aft she died.

Pepita Sakirecili, 75, besides known arsenic Pepita Garcia, was discovered aft officers smashed unfastened the doorway of her Tottenham location aft concerns were raised by locals and ambulance crews were scrambled.

Her remains were recovered arsenic friends from the assemblage wherever she had lived for decades looked on.

She is believed to person died earlier Christmas but a origin of decease is yet to beryllium established.

Neighbour Jenny, 59, described her arsenic a ‘wonderful’ pistillate primitively from Spain who loved gardening and organised nights retired for locals.

She told Metro: ‘She was a fantastic woman, we are heartbroken. She was primitively from Spain and spoke Spanish and English.

‘We each utilized to spell to the pub unneurotic from clip to clip and she organised america to spell to a Spanish nighttime successful cardinal London.

‘It was large amusive and she was large fun. She was overmuch lived astir here. She liked gardening and would potter astir the garden.’

She said Pepita had lived connected Reynardson Road for decades, with her son.

Her beingness had been deed by calamity with the decease of a 2nd son, Jenny said.

She added: ‘We truly don’t cognize however she died. The past clip I saw her was earlier Christmas and I thought it was antithetic arsenic I had not seen her retired doing her Christmas shopping.

‘She lived with her son. The past clip I saw her was erstwhile she was putting retired her bins.

‘In the months earlier she had dramatically mislaid weight. She was rather a large woman but past mislaid loads of weight, possibly 7 stone.

‘The constabulary person interviewed each of america and asked for immoderate footage of her connected the thoroughfare earlier she died. I anticipation they implicit their probe and get to the bottommost of it.’

Neighbours person near a angiosperm extracurricular the pensioner’s location with an RIP message.

One neighbour told Metro: ‘She was a beauteous lady, ever said hullo and lived determination years. She was portion of the cloth of the community.

‘It’s a calamity for america astir here. I deliberation she was connected medicine for immoderate information but truly it’s a enigma to america what really happened.

‘The archetypal we knew the constabulary were smashing successful the door. They aboriginal agleam her assemblage out.

‘It was precise grim, determination wasn’t overmuch of her left, her assemblage had been near truthful long. Police person been precise cagey, we conscionable don’t cognize what to think.’

Detectives  have said they privation to hint a taxi operator who whitethorn person footage of her struggling into her location with gathering materials aft helium became disquieted astir her carnal state.

Det Insp Barry Hart of the Metropolitan Police said helium wanted to ‘build a picture’ of what happened.

‘I americium peculiarly keen to hint a taxi operator who drove Pepita to the code successful Reynardson Road successful August 2024 and witnessed Pepita struggling to assistance plywood and different gathering supplies that she had bought,’ helium said.

‘We judge the operator was acrophobic astir her payment and whitethorn person recorded Pepita connected their mobile phone.’

He besides asked anyone with mobile telephone oregon dashcam footage, taken successful Reynardson Road betwixt 16 October and 31 January, to interaction police.

A 40-year-old antheral from Reynardson Road, Tottenham, has been charged with preventing a lawful burial.

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