At first Kelly Dudley thought the man in blue overalls had been sent by her landlord to clear the overgrown garden. But when she saw him emerge from the shed on a Sunday morning her suspicions were aroused.
Inside the shed she found a large wooden-framed single bed, two televisions, a chest of drawers, a camping stove, pots and pans, a carpet, crockery, bags full of clothes, aftershave, and a shaving mirror.
"It beggars belief," said Miss Dudley, 25, from Banbury, Oxfordshire. "The police came and tried to speak to him but all he could say was his name is John, he'd been there five days and he drives lorries and cranes.
"He's cleared my whole garden completely without any tools and once I'd finished being scared I actually felt a bit sorry for him - he's clearly very house-proud, it's been kept very tidy and is probably nicer than some bedsits you can get in Banbury. I put some pot plants out and he even planted them in the garden one day."
PC Matt Locke of Banbury police station said: "We were contacted by a woman who claimed a homeless man was living in her shed. Another PC and I attended and interviewed the man, who was totally co-operative. He told us he was a Lithuanian national who had lost his job and became homeless. He hadn't committed any criminal offences, but we asked him to move on and he did so willingly, telling us he was going to pursue ways of returning to his home country."
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