Stunned landlords share stomach-churning pictures of poo-stained baths, smashed kitchens and battered boilers

They capture gardens strewn with rubbish, walls with huge cracks, and bathrooms left in stomach-churning conditions.

Other images show broken windows, front rooms full of rubbish and bedrooms with mounds of litter piled across the floor.

There are broken sinks and piping along bathrooms, which look like they’ve not been cleaned in months.

Melissa Vickery, 37, who rented out a three-bedroom property in Reading, Berkshire, was sickened her house "completely and utterly destroyed".

"The house was completely and utterly destroyed. I was really stunned by what I saw,” the chartered accounted told the Mirror Online.

"Rooms were full of rubbish. The washing machine was broken, the fridge was broken. Everything was butchered.”

She said the total bill to make the house habitable again came to around £10,000.

"We had to fumigate the property to remove all the bedbugs. We had to get skips outside the property to remove all the rubbish."

The pictures were originally part of a playful competition to find the ultimate "tenant from hell".

Landlords from across the UK had sent images of the most disgusting messes left behind by tenants, with a £500 prize up for grabs.

The pictures were shared online on the competition's website.

Another landlord from the West Midlands told how tenants destroyed furniture and walls, leaving his flat "uninhabitable".

"They were the tenants from hell. There was mess everywhere, it was horrendous.

"It looked like someone had punched or kicked the doors, it was that bad. There were holes in them, some so deep you could see straight through to the other side.

"I was furious. You put your trust into these people and then this happens.”

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