Repo men strip wrong house

A tenant came home from work to find his belongings in the street and his locks changed after a bank repossessed the wrong house.

Lorry driver Robin Naylor, 57, of High Street, Greetland, was stunned to find his personal possessions in bin bags.

He said: "My first thought was 'who has dumped all this rubbish outside' but then I tried to open the door and found the locks had been changed."

He immediately rang landlord David Booth, 47, of Holywell Green, believing he had been evicted.

"But he was as surprised as me," said Mr Naylor, who lives alone. Mr Booth, also Mr Naylor's boss, rushed to the property.

It later emerged bailiffs had been given the wrong address by the Halifax Bank.

A spokeswoman from the Halifax said: "We are very sorry. It was a human error."