Italian teenager Benedetta Podesta, 18, found dead at her London home by friends after her worried mum raises the alarm
Benedetta called in sick to her job at a London pub in the days before her death
AN Italian teenager was found dead in her London home when her mum raised the alarm after not hearing from her daughter for four days.
Benedetta Podesta, 18, from Genoa, was working as a waitress at a pub in the capital but had called in sick in the days leading up to her death.
Her worried mum asked friends in London to check up on her.
They forced their way into the flat and found her body.
Officials in Genoa have opened a case and a post-mortem is expected to take place this week.
Her dad Claudio told an her family were "destroyed" by her death.
Benedetta had been in the UK for a few months after moving to London with friends to learn English.
She is understood to have worked at The Rising Sun pub on Tottenham Court Road.
A devastated colleague said she was too upset to speak about Benedetta's death.
She is the second young Italian woman found dead in the capital in the past month.
Just two weeks ago, student Francesca Bezuayehu Bisco, 24, was discovered by her roommate at their flat in Dalston, East London.
She had moved to London from Adria, northern Italy, to study computer science and perfect her English.
Francesca had been in London for around a year and a half and worked part-time in a fast-food restaurant to finance her studies.
The cause of her death is no yet known.
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