Cleaner scarred for life and 'suffering flashbacks' from what she found in Manchester flat

A self-employed cleaner, Rayann McMullan has dealt with some pretty challenging scenes over the years.

But one recent visit to a 'pizza-obsessed' hoarder's house was so horrifying it reduced her to tears multiple times – leaving her “scarred” by the experience.

Rayann, 25, took on the job after spotting a plea on Facebook. A landlord needed help in clearing out rubbish left behind by a former tenant in Tameside.

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Although used to rolling her sleeves up and getting on with deep-cleaning work, Rayann's jaw dropped when she stepped inside the one-bedroom apartment in Droylsden.

Shocking snaps show the entire flat swamped in hundreds of pizza boxes, stale food, plastic bags and bottles of urine.

Rayann said it took two full days to clear out the flat – crying several times at the prospect of having the tackle the jam-packed bedroom.

Clearing the pizza boxes took four hours alone, with Rayann being forced to leave a Jenga-like stack behind as there were too many to keep making repeat trips down the stairs.

The mum-of-three, from Collyhurst, now says she gets flashbacks whenever she sees a pizza box. "I got really excited when I was offered the job and then the landlord sent me a video,” she said.

"So I thought, 'right okay, that is a different job to what I would normally do'. When I got down to doing the dirty part, and all of the clear-out, I thought, 'oh no, what have I got myself into?

"It was really, really bad. I thought I wasn't going to be able to do it alone. There was stale food everywhere, and thousands and thousands of pizza boxes.

"They were like some kind of pizza-obsessed hoarder. There were so many of them that I couldn't bag