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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Tim Hanlon

Hoarder forced to sleep in his car after stuffing his £500,000 home with old newspapers

A hoarder was forced to sleep in his car after packing his half-million-pound house with so many newspapers he couldn't get inside.

Professional cleaner Joe Cole said that it was impossible to enter the front door when his clearance company JGD Pro Solutions came to clear the home with "more than 5,000" newspapers in the building.

Mr Cole said he and four other workers spent an hour unblocking the front door of the three-bed detached home near Brighton.

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