Smelly tramp found living in loft

Natalie Summers called for a plumber to check out her noisy heating system — and found a tramp living in her loft.

She asked the workman to check the pipes after hearing creaking sounds above her flat for weeks.

When the plumber opened the loft hatch he found a dishevelled tramp wrapped in a duvet staring down at him. The vagrant then leapt out and sauntered off.

The loft hatch is above the communal landing, so the man could have got in when no one was around. Natalie told how the plumber had to force the loft hatch open.

Natalie said: “I’ve been told he had been urinating in the water pipes. We could have drunk it.”

Council chiefs said: “We made sure there was no one else up there.”