Disgust as fly-tippers use skip at dead loved one’s house
TELL OF ANGER AT RUBBISH DUMPED AT SITE
A GRIEVING family was distraught to discover that the skip they had hired for clearing out their deceased loved one’s belongings had been used by someone else to dump their own rubbish.
Mary Noonan, from Hinckley, died in March 2020 of pancreatic cancer and her sister, Liz, and Liz’s daughter, had been travelling down from where they live, on the outskirts of Derby, to empty her home.
Mary’s son and grandsons were unable to help as they live in the United States.
The skip was delivered on September 19 and they filled it as much as they thought was safe, then returned on October 1 to oversee another five items being taken away.
Liz said: “The skip was still on the front drive but obviously some fly-tipper had been there in the intervening interval as there were many more items, including a child’s car seat, on top of the stuff we had put in it.
“There was also a cast iron patio table with a glass top dumped next to the skip.
“Even more disgusting, one of the bin liners containing my sister’s clothes had been ripped open, the contents taken out then chucked back on the skip.”
Liz added: “It was my dead sister’s clothes. I was absolutely disgusted and upset. I don’t know why anybody would have done such a thing.”
Mary stayed in a care home during her final days and she died the day before Mother’s Day.
Liz said it was a big shock to be told just hours after speaking to her sister over the phone, that she had passed away.
“If the person(s) responsible are reading this I hope you are feeling thoroughly ashamed, but probably not, because if you had any common decency at all you would not have done it in the first place”, Liz said.
“Every time I think about it, it makes my stomach turn over. I don’t think I want to see a skip again in my life. It brings back the memories.”