A daughter lived with her dead mother for up to three years after “embalming” her body in salted road grit, an inquest heard.
Gaynor Jones, 83, was discovered covered in grit a week after police carrying out a welfare check forced their way into her cluttered home to find daughter Valerie, 57, collapsed.
An inquest heard widow Gaynor hadn’t been seen alive for three years when her body was found inside the cottage.
Valerie failed to raise the alarm over her mother’s death – but had bought four bags of salted road grit around Christmas 2015.
The coroner believed the salted grit had been used to “embalm or cover up her mother’s body” by Valerie in the house in Aberaeron, west Wales.
The hearing was told there was so much rubbish in the house and garden it took police a week to find the remains of her mother.
The inquest was told Valerie was being cared for in a mental health facility and it was not in the public interest to charge her with any crime.
