BRITAIN’S heaviest man threatened to call police when nurses took away his fizzy drinks.

Jason Holt, 32, complained to them that he was constantly dehydrated because of a liquid restriction placed on him. 

The 47st man from Surrey, who downed three litres of sugary drinks a day, was left moments from death when his vital organs began failing in June. 

Carers put him on a strict new regime where he can’t drink more than 1.5 litres of any liquid in 24 hours. 

He moaned: “I am on a drink restriction and I keep trying to explain to them, ‘I’ve got my human rights and I should be able to drink what I want to’. But I’m not allowed.

“I’m so down about it. What does this say to society, that you can’t drink now?

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“I keep saying, ‘Why can’t you give me my drink back instead of making life difficult for me?’

“I told them I’ll call the police because I’m constantly dehydrated.

“But they are giving me tiny amounts — 100ml at a time — which is ridiculous for someone my size.

“I am only allowed 1.5 litres a day of any kind of fluid including water. They won’t even let me get fruit because it has liquid in it.

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“I can’t get out of bed or go ­anywhere. I’m in this room looking at four walls with a drink restriction and feeling sick because of the situation I’m in.

“You have to ask them why. It’s strange and it feels like they’re ­torturing me. They’ve come up with this theory that I’ve been drinking too much liquid.

“I drank juice, water, squash, ­flavoured water and Coke when I was at home, — in a day I could drink three or four litres — but never alcohol.

“I was also smoking 20 Super-kings during the day and another 11 when I was up at night.

“I was smoking a hell of a lot so how can they say it’s only to do with the amount I was drinking?”

Jason suffered a series of mini strokes and a suspected blood clot as he struggled for breath at his Surrey home.

It took two hours to get him to Frimley Park hospital in a specially designed ambulance, and by that point doctors feared he might not make it through the night.

The NHS is now paying for Jason to be cared for at a private nursing home outside London, where he ­complains that his new reduced calorie diet breaches his “human rights”.

His collapse came just days before Britain’s previous heaviest man, ­55st Matthew Crawford, died aged 37 in June.

In an exclusive interview, Jason said: “If I didn’t call 999, I’d be dead. I couldn’t breathe.

“It felt like something was blocked inside me and I was suffocating.

‘It feels like they are torturing me’

“I called 999 once then called again half an hour later to say I was ­getting worse.

“When they finally arrived it took a couple of hours to get me out because I couldn’t even stand.

“They put me on to an ambulance and took me to hospital, where one of the nurses said in front of everyone, ‘Your organs are failing due to obesity’.

“Apparently I was close to total organ failure. They think I had a blood clot — although they could never confirm that — and a series of mini strokes.

“I knew something wasn’t right before because I couldn’t get out of bed. I was very sleepy and I stopped being able to talk.

“They gave me tablets for the blood clot and I had to have gallons of water pumped into my body through a machine to save my kidneys.

“I know I’m lucky to be alive but it doesn’t feel that way because of the restrictions I am now under.”

Jason’s brush with death came after Matthew Crawford, whose care cost the NHS £40,000 a month, died from sepsis and organ failure.

A small mercy was that this time Jason did not need to be winched from his home by a crane — as happened during his last collapse in October 2020.

That operation saw a team of 30 firemen and engineers carefully lower him to the ground from his 53- year-old mother Leisa’s two-bedroom, third-floor flat in Camberley, Surrey.

On that occasion he was  taken to nearby Frimley Park hospital, where he was treated for lymphoedema in his groin and legs — a chronic condition that causes water retention and swelling.

When The Sun interviewed Jason in December last year he was down to 45st, from his peak weight of 50st.

He had just moved into a custom-built £400,000 council bungalow including a specially constructed £3,000 toilet and huge double doors so he could be removed more easily in a medical emergency.

But he now admits that his weight crept back up to 47st as he continued to eat multiple packets of crisps for breakfast and down three to four litres of sweet drinks a day.

Jason was also smoking more than 30 cigarettes a day before he suddenly became unwell on June 4.

He spent two months in hospital and has been in the nursing home since early August.

Jason previously blamed his addiction to takeaway apps for causing his weight to balloon when he was in his twenties.

He admits he is still spending £16 a day on Deliveroo while he is in the nursing home, which cares for people with complex needs.

His latest health problems have also left him feeling vulnerable and afraid.

He has vowed to finally kick the unhealthy food habit and he has already quit smoking.

He said: “I’ve always thought the enemy was food. But they haven’t restricted my food intake here, which is ridiculous, it should be that and not drink.

“I have been ordering M&S ­sandwiches on Deliveroo and ­getting stuff from the café and they are OK about that. But as soon as they look in the bag and see a drink they confiscate it. I seriously don’t understand it.

“I’ve been eating a lot less but I’m not getting anywhere.

“I’ve stayed the same size so I imagine I’m still 296kg (46st 8lb).

“I stopped smoking a couple of months ago. I am determined just to have one meal a day and stop ordering on Deliveroo.

“They’re trying to do physio with me here, just standing up and ­trying to walk forward, but it’s not happening. I keep saying, ‘I don’t think I can even get into a wheelchair’.

“They tell me that I shouldn’t think like that.

“I don’t feel good about the future, to be honest, and I don’t know whether I’ll ever get to see my home again.

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“You expect to be in a care home like this when you’re in your 90s, not when you’re in your 30s like me. I can’t even get out of bed.

“I knew I’d get really ill eventually, given my size, but I never expected it would happen to me now. It’s terrifying.”

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