Britain's fattest man dies, weighing 65st

Carl Thompson, 33, had been housebound for more than a year and his weight skyrocketed to more than 65 stone.

Doctors had previously warned he could be faced with death if efforts were not made to shed at least 45 stone.

Emergency services were called just after 10.30am on Saturday morning to reports Mr Thompson had died.

They took hours to remove the heavy body from his home in Dover, Kent, and were forced to use a small crane and take off part of a juliet balcony.

A Kent Police spokesman said: "Officers do not believe the death to be suspicious. The coroner will be notified."

Following an appeal for help Mr Thompson had been inundated with offers after tipping the scales as Britain's fattest man in May.

He said: "Any professional opinion or other knowledge would be great. I've had a lot of that coming in anyway but the more the better."

Mr Thompson had appealed for help to get down to his ideal of 20 stone.

He said he had always had a bad relationship with food and even as a child would sneak downstairs in the night and raid the kitchen cupboards in his childhood home in Lydden, Kent.

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."

Consuming 10,000 calories-a-day by gorging on takeaways and whole loaves of bread, he became too heavy to walk or wash himself.

He was confined to his flat where he lived alone and kept company by a team of NHS carers who would bathe him and cook for him every day.

Living of incapacity benefits and disability allowance Mr Thompson had not worked since the age of 17 and spent roughly £200 a week on takeaways and online food shopping.

After the death of his mother in 2012 from a brain tumour, Mr Thompson turned to food as a means of coping with his grief.

With food as his only source of comfort, he doubled in weight from 30 to 65 stone in just three years and became housebound.

Paul Mason, who was once considered the fattest man in the country after ballooning to 70 stone, has told of his ordeal trying to get rid of excess skin following a 46-stone weight loss.

(The Telegraph)