A roofer discovered the decomposing body of a 47-year-old man in a North Staffordshire flat, three months after neighbours first complained about the smell. The workman spotted flies buzzing around a flat window on May 28 and, after looking through a letterbox, he discovered a decomposing body on the floor, Stoke-on-Trent Live reported.He alerted the emergency services, who enlisted a joiner to open the flat door at the Clayton property, which is run by association Aspire Housing. Pawel Laszniew