{"id":336320,"date":"2025-08-11T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336320\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:54:10","slug":"torquay-man-who-lived-with-body-for-three-years-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336320\/","title":{"rendered":"Torquay man who lived with body for three years jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Sites was reported missing in April this year and police found her at the flat in Upton Road &#8211; which Stevens had since moved out of &#8211; on 27 May. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hollie Gilbery, prosecuting, said Stevens lied to police about when he last saw Ms Sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Gilbery said he told officers she had died in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Dentith, defending, said Stevens was &#8220;devastated&#8221; by his partner&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Insp Jeanne Hellyer said: &#8220;Anouska was denied the dignity and right of a lawful burial on her death by Stevens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My thoughts remain with Anouska&#8217;s family and friends, who can now lay her to rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Sites was reported missing in April this year and police found her at the flat in Upton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-336320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115011417803422968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}