Mum eaten by her sausage dogs as she lay dead in home for a month is pictured – as neighbour tells of grim discovery

A MUM who was eaten by her sausage dogs as she lay dead in her home has been pictured for the first time.

Jemma Hart, 45, had not been seen for a month when her body was found partially mauled by the dachshunds at her home in Swindon.

Jemma Hart had not been seen for a month when her body was found partially mauledFacebook / jemma.bell1

An inquest into the mum-of-two’s death took place this yearFacebook / jemma.bell1

Facebook / jemma.bell1Jemma’s two dogs, Millie and Frankie[/caption]

Worried neighbours had noticed her absence and reported their concerns to police in January 2024.

Her neighbour Lorraine told MailOnline that Jemma had “mental health problems” and that she was a “troubled soul”.

She explained that she could hear the dogs barking, which was why she went to knock on her door.

However, when she tried to open the door using the key Jemma had given her, she couldn’t unlock it as there was another key inside the lock.

Lorraine said: “I went home and I ummed and ahhed.

“Then I thought I’ll ask the police to make a welfare check and that’s when they found her.”

She explained Jemma had split from a long-term boyfriend in the weeks running up to her death during the 2023 Christmas period.

Following what Lorraine called an acrimonious split with her boyfriend, Jemma was then found partially eaten by her two starving dachshunds in late January 2024.

Lorraine believes Jemma intended to breed her two dogs and sell the puppies.

She said one of the canines, Millie, was still a puppy and a “lovely” dog, although described the darker one, Frankie, as “vicious” and as a dog that did not like other people or pooches.

Jemma’s son called the dogs “her life” during an inquest into her death this month.

He also shared a moving tribute to Jemma in a post on Facebook last year, saying: “To all Jems friends.

“After spending the last couple of weeks to even process what we’re about to share, it’s with great sadness to say that my beautiful mum Jemma passed away January 29th unexpectedly and I wanted to inform you all.”

At the inquest this year, he said: “She’d had dogs in the past but in 2022 she got a dachshund called Frankie and a year later she got another one called Millie.

“Her house backed onto Lydiard Park where she regularly walked her dogs, and the dogs were her life.”

STRUGGLES WITH PHYSICAL PAIN AND INSOMNIA

Coroner Ian Singleton said: “On January 29, Wiltshire Police was contacted by Jemma’s neighbours with concerns that they hadn’t seen her since Christmas.

“Officers went to her home and found her deceased in the living room.

“One of her dogs was also found dead at the scene and the other was in a distressed condition.”

A police officer confirmed that Jemma’s body had been eaten after her death.

A post-mortem report carried out by toxicologist Peter Street confirmed that the Swindon woman had died from suicide.

Coroner Singleton concluded: “Jemma lived alone with her two dogs in Swindon and she was estranged from her family.

“Jemma was found in her home with injuries caused by dogs after she died. Her death has been recorded as suicide.”

Cops said that her death is not being treated as suspicious.

Despite Jemma’s passion for pets, she faced several health and mobility issues.

It caused her to stop working and she struggled with physical pain and insomnia.

Jemma had lived in the property for around 10 years.

But despite being known to Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health team, she had not had contact with them for many years.

Jemma, 43, was found dead at her home last yearFacebook / jemma.bell1

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