A homeless pensioner who spent five nights sleeping rough on Piccadilly Gardens has been told he is not eligible for housing from the council he used to work for.
The 79-year-old - who walks with two sticks due to painful arthritic gout - describes the nights he spent sleeping in Manchester city centre as ‘absolutely dreadful’.
He is currently living in a B&B thanks to a local charity which is using public donations to put him up. But when the native Manc - who has never been homeless before - presented to Manchester Council, he was told they had no duty of care as he has not been habitually resident in the UK.
The pensioner says he feels ‘betrayed’ by the local authority he was an employee of for years. “I worked for the council for four years in the 1980s, as the Lord Mayor’s attendant, a porter and security, and this is the way they treat me.
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