Cause of death not determined

MYSTERY surrounds the death of a 57-year-old woman whose badly decomposed body lay in her home for around seven days, an inquest heard last night.

Dr Richard Shepherd, a forensic pathologist with Britain’s Home Office, was unable to determine the cause of Mary Guy’s death at her home at Bunratty Road, Coolock, Dublin.

Her brother, Patsy Guy, told the court how he broke in through the window of Ms Guy’s apartment, where she lived alone, to discover her badly decomposed remains on August 6, 2004.