Police launch probe after man is caught on CCTV defecating in the doorway to block of £800,000 flats in Fulham leaving residents ‘mortified’
- Mystery man branded the ‘doorstep dumper,’ was caught defecating outside flat
- Pictures of the incident were taken outside an apartment in Fulham last Friday
- Arundel Mansions houses apartments estimated to be worth up to £830,000
- One local said the community has been left ‘mortified,’ by the brazen images
A ‘doorstep dumper’ was caught-short on camera in an affluent part of London on Friday night.
Neighbours in Fulham have expressed their shock after pictures surfaced in a local forum appealing to find the man man seen defecating on one resident’s doorstep.
Sophie Penn shared the pictures online to in a bid to try and track down the mystery man. She wrote: ‘This chap defecated on the doorstep of my building on Kelvedon Road. This is absolutely disgusting behaviour.’
THe man, seen wearing shorts and a vest, looked around for passers-by after walking up to a doorstep in Fulham, West London on Friday
After checking the coast was clear, he was caught on camera beginning to lower his shorts
The footage, filmed between 6pm and 7pm last Friday, was taken from outside Arundel Mansions, a block housing apartments estimated to be worth up to £830,000 in a leafy street near Parsons Green station.
One local, who asked not to be named, told MailOnline: ‘Everyone is absolutely mortified by it.
‘The woman who shared it was shocked, she’s called him the ‘doorstep dumper.
‘I think it’s a one off but it’s pretty shocking. There was a bit of an issue around here during lockdown with people getting caught short after visiting Parsons Green, people seemed to be relieving themselves in nearby roads.’
Locals are said to be ‘mortified,’ after pictures of the so-called ‘doorstep dumper’ were shared online
One man who lived inside the flat contacted Metropolitan Police to complain today.
A spokesman from Scotland Yard said: ‘A man in his 40s reported that a man had defecated on the front step of his communal building in Kelvedon Road.
‘There have been no arrests.’
Shocked neighbours joked and voiced their disgust at the graphic pictures of the mystery man as he heads to the doorstep, looks around and then drops his shorts in West London.
One neighbour wrote: ‘Doorstep? That is quite incredible. At least get into the gutter or use a bush if unwell. Or return with a bag.’
One sympathetic neighbour said: ‘I think the guy was in a bad way and needed to go at that moment’
Another wrote: ‘I used to live next to a pub and every morning used find a similar offering on the communal doorstep. It’s hideous.
‘Not defending this guy at all, but looking at the state of his “offering” I think it was an emergency poop- which is not to say that he should not have had the kahunas to come back and clean up after his sorry self.’
A more sympathetic reader commented: ‘I think the guy was in a bad way and needed to go at that moment. He should have found somewhere less offensive.’