A 'sixty stone' man had to be taken to hospital in a super-sized ambulance after apparently starving himself for two weeks in a desperate attempt to lose weight.

Firefighters spent three hours trying to move the man, who was allegedly found covered in bedsores and sitting in his own faeces, into the ambulance after the alarm was raised last Thursday, March 18.

But paramedics were forced to come back to the home in Milne Park East, New Addington the next day because fire crews “could not get a purchase on him”.

Green watch manager Dave Field, whose team attempted to move the man, said: “We did everything we could, but we didn’t really have the necessary equipment to lift him because he was so massive.

"He must have weighed 60 stone.

“We just had to leave him there with the ambulance crew.

“Our white watch went to the same address a few weeks ago when he had fallen on the floor, and that time they managed to get him on to a strong nylon salvage stretcher and manhandle him back on to the bed.

“That time he was in a better state of health, but I don’t think he’d eaten anything for the last two weeks.”

A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman confirmed two ambulances had been sent to the house that evening to reports of a person taken unwell.

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