Grieving mother of Britain’s heaviest man worried he will not be able to be cremated because of his 50-stone frame

The grieving mother of Britain’s heaviest man has revealed she fears her son will not be able to be cremated because of his 50-stone body.

Jason Holton, 33, from Camberley, Surrey, died of organ failure last Saturday, just days before celebrating his 34th birthday.

Now his distraught mother, Leisa, is struggling to find a place to cremate his body because “there is concern that he is too wide for the room,” she said. The sun.

The 55-year-old also claimed a funeral would cost too much money as her son’s large body would require a double grave rather than a single grave.

Leisa contacted several funeral homes and revealed that it is not Jason’s weight that is causing concern, but the fact that he may be too wide to fit in a hearse.

His mother Leisa fears he may not be able to be cremated because of his 50-stone body

Jason (pictured) weighed 47 stone and died last Saturday from obesity and organ failure

“One funeral home says they will provide a larger, rectangular coffin for him and believes they have figured out how they will transport him,” she told the newspaper.

The mother had remained with Jason at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, where he was transferred by six firefighters by special ambulance.

Jason was named Britain’s heaviest man after Carl Thompson, who weighs 65 stone, died in 2015.

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

He added that his father’s death when he was just three years old also had a profound impact.

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.”

Leisa said he was given 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 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’.

At his peak he weighed more than 50 stone and called himself ‘Britain’s fattest man’ after being deemed too heavy for a gastric band.

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 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 a lot of junk and I am not changing.’

In 2022 he suffered a series of mini-strokes and a suspected blood clot and was left unable to walk, leaving him bedridden at home in a Hampshire village.

Leisa said Jason became seriously unwell in February, adding: ‘RUntil the end, Jason was most concerned about me and whether I would be okay. He was a brilliant person, very kind and thoughtful.”