Emergency services needed several hours to remove Carl Thompson from his home yesterday morning, using a small crane to carry his body out via an upstairs balcony and closing the road outside.

The 33-year-old, from Dover, had been housebound for more than a year after doctors warned he needed to lose 70 per cent of his body-weight to survive.

Last night the owner of his favourite takeaway, who would deliver food to his bedside using a key to his flat, spoke of sending him what may have been his final food order.

In the weeks before he died their best customer had been reducing the number of dishes he bought to lose weight.

Last month he made a public appeal for help to overcome his problem after tipping the scales as Britain’s fattest man – and was inundated with offers. Doctors warned he could be faced with death if efforts were not made to shed at least 45 stone.

Unable to leave the house to go food shopping, the 33-year-old lived on Chinese takeaways and pizzas that he had delivered to his door.

He also claimed to have spent £10 a day on chocolate, relying on benefits to pay for his junk food.

While Mr Thompson attributed most of his weight gain to the death of his mother, he admitted that he had always 'loved' food.

When his mother died of a brain tumour in 2012, he turned to unhealthy food as a means of coping with his grief.

His weight soon doubled from 30stone to 65, leaving him unable to work.
Mr Thompson spent the last few years in and out of hospital, where he was treated for a range of ailments including septicemia.

-Daily mail