Shopaholic’s body hidden beneath her purchases

The body of a shopaholic pensioner was discovered among a mountain of her purchases, it emerged yesterday.

Joan Cunnane, 77, was discovered by police at her home in Stockport, Greater Manchester after neighbours reported her missing.

It took an expert police search team several hours to find her body among possessions which filled her bungalow on Rosgill Close, Heaton Mersey.