Mother's Been Giving Me The Cold Shoulder

[Si Hunt]

An elderly woman has been quizzed by police after apparently storing her mother's body in a freezer for up to 20 years.

Officers interviewed Daulat Irani, 83, under caution after the grim discovery at the property in Sidcup, south-east London.

It is understood the body was formally identified as that of her mother Gulbai Freedoon Murzan, who was born in 1901.

Officers believe she could have been dead for up to 20 years.

Her death is currently being treated as unexplained rather than suspicious, the Metropolitan Police said.

Post-mortem examination results are expected later this week.

Officers were initially called to the property in Park Mead on May 10 after being alerted by a neighbour. Forensic officers moved in to remove the well-preserved corpse.

Ray Dyson, 77, who lives nearby, said Ms Irani was a "nice old lady" who went quietly about her business.

He told the Daily Mirror: "This has all come as a bit of a shock. The first we knew was when two police cars and an officer in a full forensic bodysuit turned up. They taped off the garage and have now put a padlock on it."

A police spokesman said: "The death is being treated as unexplained rather than suspicious. There have been no arrests and an 83-year-old woman has been interviewed under caution."

Bizarre. What made her do it? Did she just pop it there to bury later, then forgot? Or did she in some way like to keep her old Ma close to her. More importantly, did she pack the fish fingers and chicken dippers around her late Mum, or on a different shelf?

Si.

[Dirk Gently]

It's amazing the things you forget are in the freezer & later find are beyond their use by date.

[Rob McCow]

It sounds like a ploy hatched by that insidious interloper of ice, Dr Freeze!

[Andrew Curnow]

Yes, we were looking at that story online too. I can't work out whether the 20 years is based on the last time anybody saw the old woman (and if so, wouldn't somebody have missed her before now?) or maybe what she was wearing?

I have to admit, though, that my first thought was what kind of freezer have they got, to get a body in?!

[Antony Cox]

Is this why Mum's go to Iceland..?

[Dirk Gently]

I have to admit, though, that my first thought was what kind of freezer have they got, to get a body in?!

A chest freezer presumably. My Mum used to have one that could quite comfortable take a persons body...if little else.

[Andrew Curnow]

Crikey, you'd be hard-pressed to get a medium-sized dog in ours, and you'd have to hack the shelves out to let you do even that!

I think I'm getting freezer envy...

[Dirk Gently]

If you take out the freezer baskets then this might take a body.

[Andrew Curnow]

I can't buy one now, it would look suspicious!!

[shada pavlova]

Is this why Mum's go to Iceland..?

@ Ant

[Si Hunt]

or maybe what she was wearing?

If she's decked out in a Betty Boo T-Shirt, she probably died around twenty years ago. That's advanced forensics, that is!

Si.

[Rob McCow]

Perhaps she was a big Doctor Who fan? She might have tried to freeze herself when the show was cancelled and thought she could be re-awakened when it came back.

[Si Hunt]

It might be Barbara Clegg.

Si.

[Pip Madeley]

It might be Norma Bates.

[Dirk Gently]

It might be a Cyberman.

[Pip Madeley]

I bet her freezer is more convicing than the "tombs" in Attack...

[Dirk Gently]

May be her Mother said she was "cryin' " & she thought her Mother said she was "Cryon" & stuffed her in the freezer to save her life?

[MinaHarker]

"Morning, Mum."