A FAMILY home filled with human faeces and a dead hamster is being cleaned out by horrified landlords - who have already filled 200 rubbish bags.

       Landlords Vic, 63, and Jane Shoulders, 60, expect a further 100 sacks will be needed to clear the takeaway packets, filthy clothes, human faeces and discarded children's toys from the Swindon property.

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       Vic, 63, and Jane Shoulders, 60, have filled up 200 bin bags cleaning out the property Credit: SWNS 4

       The toilet has so far seen three bottles of acid Credit: SWNS

       Their tenant - who has not been named - moved in in January 2020 and the Shoulders received only one month's rent before payments stopped.

       But, due to current law, landlords must give tenants three months' notice before they can be evicted.

       Then the pandemic hit and tenants could not be evicted during lockdown.

       Legal proceedings were eventually started in June 2021 and the tenant was legally evicted on August 12.

       When Vic and Jane finally got in to the house they were confronted with their worst nightmare.

       Vic said: "When we finally got in I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The smell straight away was horrendous and there were flies everywhere.

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       "I managed to film a quick video but could only stay in there for 20 minutes."

       He added: "Some of the things we've found have been unbelievable.

       "There was a hoover that had a dead hamster in it, bags of shopping that had been delivered and just been left laying around, all of the carpets were ruined.

       "There were takeaway boxes in every room. Upstairs there was a children's truck with faeces on it.

       "I've used three bottles of acid on the toilet so far and it's still not clean.

       "I was lost for words, there were no no words, I couldn't even come in the house, couldn't even look."

       The kitchen suffered the most damage after a large water leak which had caused the ceiling to collapse, the cooker hood to fall off the wall and potentially serious damage to the structure of the house itself.

       Vic and Jane - as well as other members of the family - have so far spent two weeks cleaning up the house after purchasing shovels, body suits, gloves, masks, fly traps and hundreds of bin bags.

       "Both of us were shocked," said Jane, 60.

       "We're reasonable people, we would have fixed anything that was wrong, but to leave the house like this is heartbreaking.

       "It was a nice house. Now I just want to get a match and burn the whole thing down."

       "How can someone have lived like this?" she asked.

       The family are still clearing out the rubbish, so they have yet to gain a good idea of the true extent and cost of the damage caused.

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       A large water leak caused the ceiling to collapse in the kitchen Credit: SWNS 4

       There were piles of rubbish in the house Credit: SWNS

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