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A tenant from hell left his home littered with 3,000 empty beer cans stacked higher than the furniture - after only paying rent once in SEVEN years.

Landlords Sandra Considine, 58, and her husband Chris, 70, rented out the two-bedroomed flat in Nuneaton, Warks., to a friend in need for just £30-a-week in 2018.

But the couple say the man went silent just weeks into the lease - before he blocked access to the property for the next seven years, refused to leave and never paid rent.

The unnamed occupier eventually left in January this year and Sandra and Chris were able to regain access to the two-bedroomed flat last month.

Shocking footage shows the 'inhumane' state of extreme squalor which greeted the couple as they returned to the property they originally bought for their daughter.

Thousands of beer cans, many filled with urine, can be seen strewn across almost every room as well as bags of human excrement and piles of empty takeaway boxes.

The nightmare tenant had also caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to the carpets, walls, furniture, kitchen appliances and the bathroom sink and toilet.

The disgusted couple say the whole apartment smells like ‘stale urine' and they now facing a hefty cleaning bill on top of the cost of fixing the damage.

Chris, who has been diagnosed with incurable cancer and had to give up work, says he is too ill to deal with the aftermath alongside his wife, who is also frail.

The former DPD worker said: "You just can't believe it when you see it."

"We can only guess how many cans there were amongst the rubbish, it must be thousands."

"Because they've been there that long it's eroded the can metal because the wee is like acid."

"Thankfully most of the human waste was tied up in bags so at least that was something but the state he was living in was inhumane."

Grandmother-of-three Sandra added: "We got access in June and what we found was horrible."

"It was filled with thousands of cans, all dumped in every room."

"It's waist height, a mixture of all sorts, it's shocking. You can't move stuff in case a can falls because they're full of fluids. It's ever such a long job."

"We had to clear a lot of it quickly because it was stale urine that had been there God knows how long, and we didn't want it smelling in the heatwave."

"The smell was horrendous. We had to be careful we didn't knock it and let it spill down to the flat underneath."

"There were bags of human faeces found as well, but luckily not as many. How can you live like this?"

The tenant was a colleague of Chris's at DPD who fallen on hard times and was about to be made homeless.

Feeling bad for their friend, the couple moved him into their flat to keep him off the streets with the agreement that he'd help paint the walls.

Sandra added: "I felt sorry for the lad, my husband knew him from work."

"Apparently he was living in a tent before he moved in. We had this flat we bought for one of the daughters and thought why not move him in there temporarily."

"The idea was that he was going to help us do it up."

"I asked him to pay £30 a week to cover the service charge and ground rent, which I thought was reasonable. I think he paid it once."

"When it was all done he was supposed to be leaving. He was giving me that much nonsense and stalling me."

"I didn't really think there was much that I could do due to never having a written tenancy agreement so we never tried to officially evict him."

"I'd spoken to him many times trying to get things sorted but was always fobbed off with excuses and false promises"

"I just got so bloody fed up with it, he seemed to know his rights. I never thought of myself as a landlord, not for one minute. It just went on and on and on."

"It got to the point where I said I needed to do an inspection but he wouldn't let me in. I never got anywhere. He was in there for seven years."

"I never looked at myself as a landlord or him as a tenant, I saw him as a mate. We felt sorry for him."

"We were trying to be kind but in the end we just feel utterly exploited."

"I just hope I don't have to pay for the water and electricity bills he's built up."

The couple's daughter Rose Considine, 25, has since started a GoFundMe to help the family who don't have the financial ability to pay for professional cleaners

The mum-of-one, who is a full-time support worker, said: "It's not livable, you couldn't possibly live, walk or sleep anywhere."

"The whole property is stacked with beer cans and they're not empty, they're filled with urine."

"He was obviously urinating in the cans as the toilet was blocked. Some rooms they're stacked to the ceiling, there's that many."

"It's not just a case of recycling them, it's a safety hazard."

"There are bags of faeces, too. You can only imagine the stench of the property."

"The rubbish is everywhere, household, general waste. It was really difficult to get through."

"Every single room of this flat was ruined. There's five rooms in total and all are ruined."

They let him in as a good will gesture, to get him back on his feet and then he just completely cut off contact.

Rose added: "We've raised £300 so far but I estimate it will cost more than £500, it wouldn't touch the surface of the property."

"It will need cutting out and fumigating. A lot of the appliances will need to go."

"They have been completely mugged and taken advantage of for the last seven years and I hope we can raise a bit of money to give them some relief after the whole nightmare ordeal."

To donate visit: "https://www.gofundme.com/f/elderly-couple-taken-advantage-of"