THE body of a woman found dead in a flat in Sharples is thought to have been undiscovered for three months.

Christina Slater, aged 45, is believed to have died in November.

She was found on Friday night in a ground floor flat in a two-storey block in Wrenbury Drive.

Miss Slater lived alone and did not have any children.

A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out.

Police are not treating the death as suspicious.