A tenant has been forced to shower with a bucket in his garden after his power was cut off in a £17,000 wrangle over energy bills. The 36-year-old, who will be named only as Nick, claimed his gas and electricity had been disconnected, meaning he also could not cook and lived off mostly cold or pre-prepared food.
He said he had paid £500 a month in rent, which included bills, to letting agent Virtual Rooms since moving into a shared house in Edgbaston, Birmingham, last November. But he said he stopped paying when power was cut off to the property on July 19.
Nick told BirminghamLive that he had struggled to contact the company, which gives its location as in the city's Jewellery Quarter and a Birmingham phone number on its website. He claimed he had sent them pictures of letters sent from energy companies detailing the amount owed.
