World's Fattest Has Heart Attack

Paul at his 70st peak

THE world's fattest man was in hospital last night after a suspected heart attack. Paul Mason, 48, was rushed from his home in a reinforced ambulance after suffering agonising chest pains yesterday.

Paul - who used to be 70st but slimmed down to 49st - was seen clutching his chest and gasping for breath as paramedics hoisted him on to a massive stretcher bed.

Medics feared the worst after a two-mile dash to hospital from his home in Ipswich, Suffolk.

Last night he was being closely monitored on the ward.

Medics at Ipswich Hospital would not say whether his condition was stable.

A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said: "The patient was conscious and moving and able to speak between breaths when the call to us was made.

"After an initial assessment it was decided that he needed to go to hospital in a bariatric ambulance (adapted for obese patients)."

Ex-postie Paul had been back at his specially-adapted bungalow for just a week after a life-saving gastric bypass operation.

The op was risky and doctors warned he could have died during surgery - but they declared it a triumph as he recovered earlier this month.

He had to slim down from his 70st peak last year to have the op at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex - but is still the world's heaviest man.

The Sun revealed last week he plans to reveal his weight-loss secrets in an autobiography.

He used to eat 20,000 calories a day, gorging on THREE takeaway meals a night and snacking on roast dinners in between.

His care bill costs taxpayers £100,000 a year and is said to have topped £1million over the last 15 years.

Paul's hospital stay and reinforced ambulance transfer to and from Chichester cost the NHS £20,000.