{"id":147434,"date":"2021-12-15T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=147434"},"modified":"2021-12-15T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:37:23","slug":"im-trapped-in-my-own-home-as-torrents-of-raw-sewage-floods-my-garden-i-even-ended-up-with-pair-of-knickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/im-trapped-in-my-own-home-as-torrents-of-raw-sewage-floods-my-garden-i-even-ended-up-with-pair-of-knickers\/","title":{"rendered":"I'm trapped in my own home as 'torrents' of raw sewage floods my garden – I even ended up with pair of KNICKERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

A WIDOWED pensioner has been left stranded in his home by \u201ctorrents\u201d of raw sewage flood that his garden during heavy rain.<\/p>\n

Pat Perkins, 81, has to put wellies on to wade through up to four inches of human waste that has spewed out\u00a0five times in the past few months.<\/p>\n


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Tides of excrement cascade from a manhole cover and are feared to have contaminated the land at the council home in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, where Pat has lived for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n

On Friday, workers from Severn Trent spent nine hours cleaning sewage from the great-grandfather\u2019s garden, collecting 26 bags of human waste, he said.<\/p>\n

Pat and his family are furious with the water giants – whose CEO Liv Garfield has earned \u00a317.3million since 2014 – for not fixing the problem and say they \u201cdon\u2019t seem to care\u201d.<\/p>\n

Pat says the sewage is affecting his mental health and his grandchildren now can\u2019t visit him, with a swamp of filth \u201crunning around\u201d his house .<\/p>\n

The retired lorry driver told The Sun Online: \u201cI am on my own. I lost my wife two-and-a-half years ago after 60 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the week it is bad when you have got nobody on your own. This keeps going on and you can\u2019t do anything.<\/p>\n

Most read in The Sun<\/h3>\n