Dead body in the garden.

[123everton]

With reference to the discovery of Dinah Macnichol (I offer my sincere condolences to the family) but what I'm wondering is this, the people who live at the house now had nothing to do with this crime. They now have a house that'd be difficult to sell, and probably won't want to live in again. Would that be covered by normal buildings insurance? Uncomfortable reading I know, but if it happened to you, what would you do?

[al48]

I dont think building insurance would cover this situation. The local council should cough up and give the owners the value of the house to buy another house and then, as with the Fred & Rosemary West's house, it should be demolished.

[123everton]

But legally could they be oblged too?
It's an awful thought I know (I hope I'm not offending people with this posting and it's current relevance, I'll remove it if necessary) but contents insurance would say that there is nothing structual to prevent rehabitation, negative equity could leave you with a house you just could'nt afford to sell.
I'm just curious as to the law in this instance.

[redcrx]

i wouldnt be surprised if some weirdo did want to pay a huge sum to live in a house with such a horrific link.

[daffy654]

Have they actually found Dinah McNichol's body now? I thought they had found just the one body so far,that of Vicky Hamilton.

[123everton]

Perish the thought, although they'd be more likely to only want to come and view it imagine that it'd be awful.
I suppose what I'm trying to say is that there is a whole other set of victims to this (and other similar cases) that we largely don't consider.
God bless her may she rest in peace.

[123everton]

I beg everybodies pardon. You're right.

[Pippa68]

I was going to say that too, daffy.

They are currently looking in the same place for Dinah's body.

I have read about other houses being occupied long after murders had taken place in them..some even become tourist attractions. Rather ghoulish, I know..but it is the human nature, I guess.

[daffy654]

I wasn't being sarcastic or anything there 123everton,I haven't seen the news or a paper today so thought they had maybe found another body,they are certainly looking hard enough!!!
By all accounts the house is going to be uninhabitable anyway as they are digging up floors and knocking walls down.The house owners should be entitled to the full value of the house in my opinion.

[123everton]

I know you were'nt, in all sincerity I'm grateful to you for the correction. I agree but is it because the police are tearing the house apart that they may get paid out, it'd be cheaper to rewire, replaster, rebuild the property than declare it a total loss.
The insurers would reasonably(?) argue that they're not going to pay out because you just don't want to live there anymore.
A nightmare for all concerned

[Stu Dent]

Apart from the tourists, it wouldn't worry me in the slightest if a dead body was found buried in my garden. C'mon folks, get real. It's a skeleton. Once it's all cleared away it's just a house with a garden again.

I always thought it rather strange that Fred West's house was demolished.

[Pippa68]

Rillington Place was demolished too.

I think it is an office block now.

[123everton]

God alone can imagine the terror and suffering that poor girl went through before she died, especially at the point she realised that this was how it's going to end for her, that she was going to die and no-one was coming to help her.
I'm as thick skinned as they come but I shudder thinking about it, and I'd find it very hard to drink a cup of tea and watch Top Gear" know ing what happened right were I was sitting.

[Stu Dent]

It's just a house.

I drive along roads where terrible crashes have occurred; I use the train on lines that have suicides - some of you may even use train lines where disasters have occurred. We don't tear up the roads or train lines, so why tear down a house, or even a school. The victim that led us to this house (Angelika Kluk) was killed in St Patrick's Church in Glasgow by Peter Tobin. The church reopened a few months ago.

Anyway, we don't even know where the murder scene actually was. Even if it was in that house, it's still just bricks and mortar.

[123everton]

Stu dent the only differnce between your skeleton and hers is that yours still has flesh and blood on it.
An accident is an accident, if it can be made safer then it should. If someone commits suicide in their house (and they often do) then unpleasant as it is they made a choice.
We have a victim who had no choice, either you're trying to be deliberately provocative, or you are without doubt the biggest mass debater on this ste.
I was worried that the question was insensitive, until I read your answer.

[joannie10]

they have actually found another body now.

[daffy654]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7098508.stm

[123everton]

God belss em, just kids.

[Stu Dent]

Get a grip, Everton. I'm not trying to be provocative in the slightest. You have your view, I have mine. Your question is not insensitive and neither was my answer.

As stated, we do not know where the act of murder was committed. We only know that it was disposed of in the Margate house. Even if the murder did take place there, what good can come from demolishing a house? Murders take place in houses all over the country. Your head is full of hocus pocus mumbo jumbo nonsense. The house will not be haunted, and things will not go bump in the night because a terrible event took place there. No offence (and I do mean that), but you're being rather silly and superstitious.

[123everton]

Fair play, but to describe someone as a skeleton is insensitive (they've just dug another skeleton up), I don't think 'd be alone in saying the idea of walikng over a dead body at breakfast for the last 12 years would be disconcerting, or at least weird.
The question revolves around the legal status of the house, and it's disposal with regard to finance.
Mumbo jumbo aside, unless it carries a huge discount, it aint gonna sell.
Who picks up the tab?

[Bewlay Bros]

Will the relevant London Council bulldoze the Tower of London because there were over 20000 executions there and two babies were also brutally murdered in The Bloody Tower?

I don't think it would bother me living in a house with a bloody past.