Mother’s dead body lay in bed for eight months

A 75-year-old woman’s mummified body lay in a bed at her home for eight monthsbeforebeingfound after her nephew “took her home to die”.

John Macleod, 55, pled guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court to concealing the body of his aunt, Mina Macleod, in a house on Madeira Street, Edinburgh.

He had been the sole carer of his elderly aunt for almost 30 years at his home in Kirkintilloch.

But he took her back to her home in Edinburgh to allow her to die in her own bed. When she died, he put bed clothes over her body and left the house.

Almost nine months later, her mummified body was found by a neighbour.

Macleod pled guilty to abandoning the body between 16 December, 2015, and 10 August, 2016.

A sheriff is expected to rule on the case today.