41-year-old Gary Horton has shared the grim reality of homelessness in Britain today — being urinated on by cruel students who cackled as they called him a ‘tramp’.
A man has shared the grim reality of homelessness in Britain today — being urinated on by cruel students who cackled as they called him a ‘tramp’.
Gary Horton, 41, says his mental health has cratered after three years living on the streets of Leeds has seen him ‘spat on, kicked and punched’ by passersby. Students mocked and urinated on him as he was fast asleep on a car park stairwell, leaving him ‘more upset than angry’.‘A student urinated on me, there were about two or three of them. They were just laughing and calling me a tramp. I got out of my sleeping bag and chased them. I was more upset than angry.’
Horton has long struggled with feeling ’embarrassed and ashamed’ of what he’s going through and never thought he’d be homeless.Horton used to live in Cookridge, a suburb in northwest Leeds, working as a builder. Now he begs in what he describes as the ‘bottom end’ of the city centre and sleeps in the stairwells of car parks as they are ‘quiet and warm’.He adds: ‘People don’t treat me very well. I’ve been spat on, kicked, punched. It hurts my feelings. People should take a step back and think, it could be you, it could be anybody.‘I feel embarrassed, I’m sat on the floor asking for change. My family are embarrassed and ashamed.
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