RE your article in the Daily Echo about a person who lay undiscovered dead in a block of flats in Poole.

This is the saddest story your paper has had for a long time. How such an event like this should have occurred leaves me speechless.

What a resident of the flats stated about people living in blocks and not knowing the other flat owners’ names is common today.

I live with my wife in a flat built in blocks of four units with their own front doors.

We know the owners of the other flats’ names plus some names in other blocks in Burnside.

I am fully aware what occurred in Poole can easily happen in other places.

All papers carry stories connected with sad events.

D R BROWNE, Burnside, Highcliffe-on-Sea, Christchurch