‘I got £7,000 water bill after meter racked up enough litres for 300 baths a day’

For Mick Foy, a 64-year-old construction industry worker living in a modest three-bedroom home in Ditton, Kent, the first sign that something was terribly wrong came not in the post, but over the telephone. It was a call from South East Water, and the voice on the other end of the line was delivering news [...]