Britain’s ‘heaviest man’ dies from organ failure days before celebrating his 34th birthday, weighing over 47 stone – as his mother said doctors ‘couldn’t save him’ after his health went ‘downhill’

Britain’s heaviest man has died of organ failure just days before celebrating his 34th birthday, his heartbroken mother has revealed.

Jason Holton, from Camberley, Surrey, had been housebound for eight years because of his stone frame.

The 33-year-old died last Saturday after doctors were unable to prevent his organs from failing.

His mother Leisa told him The sun that he “started going downhill” after his kidneys stopped working.

“He probably had eight lives and I thought the doctors would be able to save him again, but unfortunately that wasn’t possible,” she said.

Following his evacuation by crane lift in October 2020, his mother Leisa (pictured together when Jason was a child) told MailOnline that her son had gained weight after developing a number of mental health problems.

Jason Holton, from Camberley, Surrey, (pictured) weighed 47 stone and was suffering from organ failure

Jason was reportedly taken from his home to the Royal Surrey County Hospital by a special ambulance where six firefighters had to take him.

His mother said he was receiving kidney dialysis and an IV, but his organs continued to fail.

Doctors then told him he would die within a week, she said, and he died on Saturday.

The coroner’s report stated that he died of organ failure and obesity.

Jason lived in a custom-built council bungalow, equipped with specially reinforced furniture.

He had hoped to be prescribed the Wegovy weight-loss jab, without which he feared he would die in 2025, describing his situation as a ‘time bomb’.

Jason previously had to be lifted from his third-floor flat by a crane and 30 firefighters in a seven-hour operation, which involved constructors reinforcing the floor of their two-bed maisonette in case he fell.

He told TalkTV in October: “I believe time has passed for me in general. I’m getting to 34 now. I know I have to try something.”

At his peak he weighed more than 50 and called himself ‘Britain’s fattest man’.

Döner kebab, chips, chocolate and three containers of chicken food: his daily diet of 10,000 calories

Morning

Large portion of doner kebab meat and fries (2,500 calories)

Pop tarts (200 calories each)

For lunch, Mr. Holton has a large döner kebab with fries

Afternoon

There are about 200 calories in each pop tart

Three large containers of chicken food (2,500), prawn crackers (400) and shrimp toast (300) from Chinese takeaways

Pop tarts

Evening

Two cheese sandwiches, (1,000) two chocolate bars (1,000) and three packets of chips (550)

1.5 liters of orange juice (800) and five cans of diet coke (trail)

At one point, Jason was consuming 10,000 calories a day – four times the usual daily allowance for a man – including eating doner kebab for breakfast

He was considered too heavy for a gastric band. In 2022, he suffered a series of mini-strokes and a suspected blood clot.

In 2020, he collapsed and had to be airlifted by crane from his mother’s third-floor flat by a team of more than 30 firefighters and engineers.

He described the incident as “the most devastating time of my life.” The scary part of it all was the amount of people outside.”

Due to his health problems he was unable to work, so he received benefits. It is estimated that his healthcare has cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds.

He started overeating as a teenager and attributes bullying at school and mental health issues as the cause of his weight gain.

The death of his father when he was just three years old also had a big impact, he said.

He told TalkTV: ‘If I had my dad around, maybe there would be rules about what I eat and stuff, to stop me from putting things and stuff in my mouth.

‘Just eat constantly. Lamb döner meat, I had a problem with energy drinks. I decided to just buy fifteen Monster cans and drink them all in one go.”

He insisted he had eaten less and eaten healthier, but it had made little difference.

He said: ‘I have made changes that I seriously have for the public as I have been, my diet is now inconsistent with loads of junk and I am not changing.’

Holton is believed to have become Britain’s fattest man after 65th Carl Thompson died in 2015.

The 33-year-old Dover man had been housebound for more than a year after doctors warned he needed to lose 70 percent of his body weight to survive.

When his mother died of a brain tumor in 2012, Mr Thompson turned to junk food as a way to cope with his grief – despite already being obese.

His weight went from 30 stone to 65 in three years, leaving him unable to care for himself.

Unable to walk or even dress, he was washed and boiled by a team of NHS carers. He died after suffering from organ failure and sepsis.