Britain’s heaviest man may not have funeral he wanted as body is too big
The mother of ‘Britain’s heaviest man’ said he risks not being cremated as he requested because he may ‘be too wide for the chamber’.
Leisa Holton wants to give son Jason a ‘proper send off’ but is struggling to find somewhere capable of accommodating him.
Jason, who at his heaviest weighed 50 stone, died of organ failure a week ago aged only 33.
His mum, 55, told The Sun: ‘I’ve had a friend calling funeral homes and one asked for Jason’s dimensions.
‘His weight isn’t the concern, it’s just that he might be too wide. I am not sure he will fit into a hearse.
‘If he has to be buried, it is going to cost a lot of money that I haven’t got — he would need a double plot instead of a single.
‘We need to give him a proper send off. I miss him a hell of a lot. I loved him very much.’
Jason, from Camberley in Surrey, previously told of how his father’s traumatic death when he was aged just three had a major effect on him, causing him to start gaining weight.
Bullies are school also made life difficult, and as a teenager his overeating snowballed.
He took on the title of the ‘heaviest man’ in the UK following the death of Carl Thompson, who weighed 65st, in 2015.
He told TalkTV before his death: ‘Maybe if I had my father around, maybe there would be rules set to what I’m eating and stuff to stop me putting things and stuff in my mouth.
‘Just eating constantly. Lamb, doner meat. I had a problem with energy drinks. I just decided to get 15 of the Monster cans and drink them all in one go.’
Leisa acknowledged it was harder to enforce boundaries without her partner as co-parent, telling the Sun last year: ‘He was always out and about and I couldn’t control him.’
But she told how he was ‘a brilliant person, very kind and considerate’.
She had been hoping he could turn his life around with the weight loss drug Wegovy, which he had been on a waiting list for a prescription for, but he sadly became too unwell too fast.
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