After 5 Years of Eating Delivery Food, 317kg... UK's Heaviest Obese Man Rescued by Crane

Over 30 Firefighters Conduct 7-Hour Rescue
Hospitalized for Lymphedema Treatment
Lived at Home for 5 Years Due to Fast Food Addiction
Never Worked... Surviving on Support Funds
"Ate to the Point of Being Unable to Move an Inch"

The Sun and others reported on the 20th (local time) that Jason Holton (30), who lives in Camberley, Surrey, UK, was trapped indoors for five years due to fast food addiction and came out for treatment. Photo by The Sun.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Bong-ju] The fattest man in the UK safely escaped his house using a crane.

According to The Sun and others on the 20th (local time), Jason Holton (30), who lives in Camberley, Surrey, UK, had been trapped indoors for five years due to fast food addiction and was rescued to receive treatment.

More than 30 firefighters conducted rescue operations for seven hours, and Jason was finally able to get out of the house. Paramedics tore off the window of his house and lifted Jason up with a crane.

Barely outside, Jason expressed his joy, saying, "I can finally breathe fresh air after six years."

Classified as super obese, Jason was transported to the hospital in a specialized ambulance to treat lymphoedema in his groin and legs.

The Sun and others reported on the 20th (local time) that Jason Holton (30), who lives in Camberley, Surrey, UK, was trapped indoors for five years due to fast food addiction and came out for treatment. Photo by The Sun.

Weighing 317 kg, Jason had been using the food delivery app 'JustEat' since 2014, spending about 30 pounds (44,000 won) daily on delivery food. This amounts to about 10,000 pounds (approximately 14.73 million won) per year.

He explained, "I mainly bought kebab meat, French fries, and Chinese food through the delivery app. Then I would digest it with orange juice and diet cola, and eat sandwiches and snacks until early hours."

Already a large man, Jason said, "After I started ordering delivery food, I began gaining weight rapidly." In an emotional interview from his hospital bed, he said, "At some point, I ate so much that I couldn't move an inch."

Jason continued, "I was actually happy lying at home without asking anyone for help. I lay down waiting for my heart to stop. I felt like I had nothing left in life," he confessed.

Jason Holton and his uncle. Photo by The Sun capture.

When Jason was rescued from his house, he was suffering from severe obesity and lymphoedema and had no will to live, but reportedly called an ambulance because he could no longer endure the pain.

He also revealed his past attempts to treat obesity. He said, "I once considered gastric band surgery, but the National Health Insurance Service rejected it, and I told my mother to tear up the debit card."

His devoted mother and guardian, Leisa (52), said about her only son Jason, "I am afraid of him. I am afraid of losing him."

Leisa revealed, "Doctors said Jason wouldn't survive more than five years and would eventually suffer a heart attack."

Jason Holton and his mother in childhood. Photo by The Sun.

Jason, who survives on social security benefits, has never worked. He receives employment support allowance of 197.6 pounds (about 290,000 won) per week and independence support allowance of 112.8 pounds (about 160,000 won). His mother also receives a monthly tax reduction of 200 pounds.

Jason explained how the anxiety and worries caused by his weight made job seeking impossible. He said, "I looked for weekend jobs, but I gave up thinking my mental and physical health wouldn't endure work."

Jason became the fattest man in the UK after Karl Thomson (33, 412 kg) from Dover, Kent, died of a myocardial infarction in 2015.