Mystery of mummified corpse in £4m mansion solved 16 years after first being discovered amid huge neighbour row in leafy London area

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Mystery of mummified corpse in £4m mansion solved 16 years after first being discovered amid huge neighbour row in leafy London area.

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The mystery of a mummified body discovered in a rundown £4million Chelsea mansion has finally been solved - 16 years after first being discovered.Thanks to a major neighbour row in the leafy London area, the corpse, who was identified as a man named Frank, was found in the basement of the Ifield Road mansion back in 2010 after local residents reported a foul smell.Frank had been a lodger at the property and was known as a regular at a nearby pub.When he stopped appearing at the local, concerned neighbours raised the alarm, the Daily Mail reports.The home's owner, Nicholas Halbritter, has now been issued a Section 215 order by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, forcing the 78-year-old to address the property's dire condition.Neighbours have long complained that the mansion's state has rendered surrounding homes impossible to sell.Police accessed the property using a ladder from a neighbouring garden.The body was so badly decomposed that several officers vomited at the scene,...

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