West Denton pensioner Jimmy Hope has blasted energy firm Eon for 'hounding' him with gas bills, debt collection and even bailiffs - even though he has no gas in his flat.
Eon has even sent its own engineer to read the meter at the ex-miner's flat, who left with just a photo of an empty cupboard where the meter had been before it was taken out when the flat was upgraded to electric heating last year.
But Jimmy says even the photographic proof that he has no gas to his flat has not deterred Eon, who have continued to send demands for more than £400, based on estimated readings, from October onwards. And when 82-year-old Jimmy told the energy company again that he no longer had a gas supply to his flat, he was asked to send a meter reading - from a meter he did not have.
