When Natalie Summers called for a plumber to check out her noisy heating system , she discovered 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.
Natalie, 27, said: “It’s scary. I’ve seen a film where a nutter lived in the attic and attacked the family. I never imagined the noise was caused by someone up there. All the man had to do was shift a couple of loose bricks and he could have spied on us. It makes me feel sick.”
Natalie lives on the top floor of a block of flats in York with her son, aged seven, and 14-month-old daughter.
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.
She said: “There was something pushing against him. When he got it open this mucky man leapt out. 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.”
Other residents boarded up the loft.
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