More than £6million of public cash has been dished out to a “hellhole” homeless hotel branded “disgusting” by council chiefs. Stomach-churning revelations over standards at the Copland Hotel in Glasgow’s Govan have been exposed by a homeless man once forced to live there.
Marius Samavicius, 31, shared his investigation with the Record after previously describing how he lost all hope during his grim, two-month stay at the B&B – sleeping in a dirty, bug-infested room on a soiled bed.
The artist laid bare the huge bill Glasgow City Council paid to house the city’s homeless in the Copland and highlighted 20 recent health and safety breaches.
