SCARY: Neighbour Spots Recluse Son Watching TV With Dead Dad’s Skeleton in Armchair

An inquest has heard how a reclusive son lived with his dead father for up to four months. The inquest at Cannock Coroner’s Court heard that a neighbour who popped round to visit on October 18, peered into the living room and saw Timothy, sitting next to his father’s skeleton seated in an armchair while he watched TV.

The neighbour said: ‘The back door was open, from the kitchen I could hear the TV was on loudly in the living room. Tim was in there watching TV. I spoke to Tim for a few minutes from the hall, before I opened the door fully. As I looked at the chair I wasn’t sure what I was looking at. I could see a skull, I was very shocked.’

According to DailyMail, his 94-year-old dad, Kenneth Brown, suffered a fall following a fire in his bedroom at his home in Stafford, and Timothy, 59, propped him back up into his chair. A day later Timothy found his father had died, but instead of calling 999 left the pensioner to decompose while he continued to live with his dead body.

The hearing was told that the decomposing body may have been sitting there for as long as four months, and that Kenneth had last been seen in April. Timothy told police he did not call 999 because he could not come to terms with his father’s death.

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He had been his father’s sole carer for more than 10 years after his mother had passed away in 2004. The pair were described as reclusive ‘with hardly any visitors’.

He was arrested, but after the fire service found evidence of the blaze and an investigation judged the fractures were caused by a fall, Staffordshire Police decided it was not in the public interest to prosecute him.