Overflow: Raw sewage comes up in the sink at Carole Lloyd's home

A couple have kicked up a stink after raw sewage filled their kitchen sink daily for eight weeks.

Pensioners Carol and Peter Lloyd, of Coleman Road, Dagenham, are up in arms after being served up a dose of sewage when they make breakfast in their kitchen every morning.

Retired chef Peter, 71, and his wife Carol, 61, say they find the sink half full when they wake up, then have to wait for an hour before it empties.

Back gardens in their street have become no-go areas filled with mess which attracts foxes.

Their neighbours have criticised council workers who drained a faulty sewage pipe in their gardens, only for the mess to return within days.

Mrs Lloyd said: “It’s driving my husband mad. It’s a waste of time calling them. We’re fed up with it.

“We couldn’t go and sit in the garden – it stinks.”

Mr Lloyd has had a stroke and can hardly speak. He said the overflowing sewage was a nuisance.

Residents say workers told them that a nearby garden needs to be dug up to fix the common sewage pipe, but the repair has not been carried out since the overflow began at the start of December.

Neighbour Marie Brown, 19, of Coleman Road, said: “It’s overflowing in the garden. The smell made me and my mum ill once. It’s that bad. It needs to be sorted out.”

Workers from repair company Enterprise have vowed to visit the homes in Coleman Road, according to Barking and Dagenham Council, to fix the “problem permanently”.