Woman finds housemate dead then lives with corpse for 3 months 'before head comes off'

A young woman who found the lifeless body of her flatmate decided to live with the corpse for more than three months. Horrifying details have emerged from a trial involving a 29-year-old female, who allegedly tried to keep her flatmate's mummified corpsein a seated position - only for the head to detach due to its advanced decomposition.

In 2020, Lilou G (a name changed by the newspaper La Provence) had been out of contact for a number of weeks. In July, her guardian was tipped off by locals to an intolerable smell emanating from her apartment.

In an effort seemingly to tackle the issue, the guardian sought the services of cleaners, who paid two visits to Lilou's accommodation on Rue de la Juiverie, Carpentras, in the French department of Vaucluse. It follows reports of a missing woman found decapitated in a suitcase.

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In a disturbing revelation, writes Le Dauphiné libéré, they would discover the headless body of a former homeless man in his sixties, named Pascal B, concealed in a sofa bed.

Pascal had, of late, been sharing the apartment with Lilou, who reportedly has the psychiatric issues schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and spent time in hospital.

It would ultimately lead to the Carpentras Criminal Court trying the young woman for "desecration of a corpse" in absentia.

In spring 2020, Lilou allegedly found Pascal's body on the sofa and decided to keep it seated, but later concealed the corpse in a manner, described by French newspaper Nice-Matin, as "like in a tomb".

In a further grisly twist, a witness also claimed to have spotted Lilou thowing away several bin bags, allegedly containing the man's head and organs. La Provence reports that the woman said: "His body was like a mummy and his head had come off."

Lilou's initial charge was voluntary manslaughter, and she was held in custodyfor fifteen months. However, these charges were apparently changed over a lack of evidence for murder.

Ultimately, Lilou, whose lawyer, Stéphane Ceccaldi, argued that she'd faced mental illness and abandonment as a child, was handed a four-month suspended sentence.

It follows reports from January that detailed how a man murdered his partner with a mallet and then lived with the body for a number of weeks. Yevgeny Andreyev, 36, admitted to murdering his girlfriend, Daria 'Dora' Perevozchikova, after an argument.

During the incident, which occurred on New Year's Eve, she is believed to have begged him to stop the attack and call for an ambulance. But, he told police in St Petersburg, Russia, that he proceeded to throttle her with a tie until she died.

He then messaged Daria's family and friends using her phone, telling them she hadn't been in contact as she wasn't well. He also kept the window open in an attempt to address the smell of the corpse.