Daniel Gauntlett's lonely death highlights the growing crisis of rough sleepers in rural BritainOn a bitterly cold night earlier this year,35-year-venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) Daniel Gauntlett left his borrowed tent and sought respite from the frozen ground on the veranda of a boarded-up bungalow in the Kent village of Aylesford.
Gauntlett had been arrested just before Christmas for breaking into the same derelict house to sleep and had been charged under the new anti-squatting legislation. So the father of two lay down external on the porch to get what sleep he could under a damp tarpaulin. As temperatures dropped, he died there of hypothermia. On the same Saturday night another homeless man, and Douglas Poynton,45, also died in Aylesford.
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Source: theguardian.com