Britain’s fattest man dies at 33
BRITAIN’S fattest man has died at his home. Carl Thompson, 33, had been housebound for more than a year and his weight skyrocketed to more than 413kg.
Doctors had warned Thompson could die if he did not make efforts to shed at least 286kg.
Emergency services were called just after 10.30am on Saturday to reports that Thompson had died.
They took hours to remove his heavy body from his home in Dover, Kent, using a small crane and removing part of a balcony.
After tipping the scales as Brit- ain’s fattest last month and then an appeal for help to trim down to his ideal of 120kg, Thompson had been inundated with offers.
He said he had always had a bad relationship with food and even as a child would sneak into the kitchen at night and raid the cupboards.
Consuming 2 380 kilojoules a day by gorging on takeaways and whole loaves of bread, he became too heavy to walk or wash himself.
Thompson was confined to his flat, where he lived alone and kept company by a team of carers who would bathe him and cook for him. Living off incapacity benefits and a disability allowance, he had not worked since the age of 17 and spent about £200 (R3 840) a week on takeaways and online food.
After the death of his mother in 2012, Thompson turned to food as a means of coping with his grief.
He doubled in weight from 191kg to 413kg in just three years and became housebound.
Paul Mason, once Britain’s fattest man at 445kg, has told of his ordeal trying to get rid of excess skin following a weight loss of 292kg.