Britain’s heaviest man, Carl Thompson, has died – weeks after making a plea for help to lose weight.
The 33-year-old, who was 412kg, had been bedbound for more than a year – with one takeaway reportedly making deliveries using a key to his flat.
He was found dead on Sunday morning, and emergency services in Dover who were said to have difficulty removing his body from his house, finally were seen cordoning off a section of the road so they could remove Mr Thompson’s body through a window.
In April Mr Thompson said on national TV that he needed to lose – more than two-thirds of his body weight – otherwise doctors said he would die.
It is thought Thompson began suffering from an eating disorder after losing his mother to brain cancer in 2012.
After Thompson featured in a TV interview live from his bed, he was swamped with offers to help him lose weight.
He said he had always had a bad relationship with food and, as a child, would sneak downstairs in the night and raid the kitchen cupboards in his childhood home in Lydden.
He said: “I was only about three or four and no one knew why I did it. I would just eat anything out of the cupboards.”
