A murder suspect surrounded his girlfriend’s body with air fresheners after leaving her rotting corpse on his sofa for ten months, an inquest has heard. Gabriel Brown told police he was ‘too grief stricken’ to report 37-year-old Lynn Warman’s death at their home. The 54-year-old desperately tried to hide the stench of the body from neighbors in Worthing, West Sussex, by placing dozens of air fresheners around the corpse.
Brown was arrested in December last year and admitted recovering drug addict Ms Warman had died in February. He was himself found dead in the same house in January this year while on police bail, Horsham Magistrates’ Court coroner heard.
He had told police Ms Warman had fallen on February 9, 2009, and he woke the next day to find she had died – but chose to leave her where she lay instead of calling the police. A post-mortem examination of the woman failed to find a cause of death because of the length of time she had been dead. Coroner Penelope Schofield recorded an open verdict on the death of Miss Warman and said an inquest into Mr Brown’s death would be held later this year.
A former neighbor said: ‘Gabriel and Lynn had their ups and downs like any couple but they seemed happy a lot of the time. It’s horrible to think she lay there for nearly a year as he lived in the same house. The smell must have been terrible. I hope they can both now rest in peace.’
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