British Man Stunned to Find a Dozen Illegal Immigrants Living in His Attic

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Fiddlers in the roof

STUNNED Lee Bradley looked in his loft – and found a colony of Kosovans living in the roof.

The 12 illegal immigrants were sitting on mattresses eating sandwiches.

Party walls had been knocked down between Lee’s home and two adjoining properties to create a living space for several families, with an electric light dangling from the roof.

Shocked Lee, 33, closed the hatch and dialled 999. Police raced to his rented house and scrambled the force helicopter – but by the time they arrived the loft dwellers had gone.

Lee, wife Caroline and their four kids had just moved into the £500-a-month terraced home in West Bromwich, West Midlands.

He said: “I decided to have a look in the loft space and popped my head through the hatch.

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"There was a light dangling from the roof and about a dozen people, men, women and a baby who started to cry when she saw me. They were eating sandwiches and just stared back at me. I was scared and shut the hatch straight away.

“The police were here within 20 minutes but the people had gone. They’d taken their mattresses and bedding but left behind a table, chairs and toys. The police think they’re illegal Kosovan immigrants but God knows where they are now – they just vanished.”

Caroline, 32, said: “Lee came in ashen-faced and said, ‘There’s a load of people living in the loft.’ I thought it was a wind-up. But it scared me to death to think we moved in with them up there.”

Previous tenant Shirley Graham, 54, said: “I’d heard babies crying but found it strange because there weren’t any babies in the terrace.

“Now I realise it was coming from the loft.

“It’s terrifying to think those people were up there right over my bedroom ceiling.”

Cops believe the fiddlers in the roof got access through an adjoining house that had been sublet.

They then scarpered after realising they had been rumbled by unemployed plumber Lee.

Police said immigration authorities had been alerted and officers were contacting the owners of the adjoining properties.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1286166.ece

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I would freak-out!

[Peikko 1,575]

Desperation leads people to do some mighty strange things I guess - could be worse, they could have forced entry into Mr Bradley's house and assumed his identity, literally!

[Nagishkaw 510]

They could have hid in his closet for the next 5 years.

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

instead they shoulda been out on the streets protesting for rights.