But he's welcome to bed down with my dog in his Wendy House / Kennel for sorting out my garden!

(PS: Televisions?? So the shed had electricity, then? Posh...)

Shame, shame and shame again, for not finding connections with another El Reg story with Lithuanian motives, the one about Lithuanian firm selling Wifi products named Wilibox (http://www.wilibox.com/). How do you call a shed with Lithuanian living in it? Wilibox :)

For those keeping score (poor sad bastards like me) it is the third lithuanian story in el Reg :) Whoo-hoo :)

I've got a shed, and my back garden needs a bit of attention.

It's a lot nicer than my shed.

My shed has spiders that could be seen on Google Earth.

If I wasn't an imigrant/passing through on a EEA thingie myself I'd probably make some sort of vague reference to coming over here, taking our jobs, shagging our womenfolk/menfolk (depending on preferences), speaking gobbeltigook, and now even nicking our sheds and doing our gardens. They'll be watching our tellies, reading our newspapers and paying into our pensionfunds next, watch out.

I liked britain back in 1065 before all the bloody foreigners came over.

...to finding gnomes!

"He hadn't committed any criminal offences"

But everyone else in the country has, so he must be some kind of spy...

Honestly, the police just don't make any effort sometimes - surely those plants were potted out maliciously?

If he had (2) TV(s), did he pay his TV license? If not, there's your offence!

"I for one, welcome our gardening Lithuanian overloads..."

Overloads? Is he the thin end of the wedge? Are there 'shed loads' more arriving soon...

<ahem> Oh very well...

Free room and board for anyone willing to tidy up my garden.

English speaking non essential, provided you can draw pictures.

Hot 18-30 year old female immigrants preferred.

I've lived in flats smaller than that!

Why oh Why are people going on about a TV license/criminal offense.

Shout very load about or rapidly encroaching police state, where it's pretty much possible to find an offense to pin on anyone?

He was living in a shed uninvited using the occupants electricity. She didn't complain or he would have been charged. Presumably Ms Dudley has a TV license covering her property. I am sure if there was the slightest hint of him needing a license he would have recieved post from Ross McTaggart or whatever ficticious name is used to scare little old ladies by TV licensing these days.

BTW try explaining to nationals of nearly any country that you have to pay the government to watch TV and they will think you are joking. Then say if they tried that at home there would be a revolution.

Not sure if that's quite correct, I think you need a licence to operate an appliance which is capable of receiving television signal regardless of your intention to watch said signals. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sury thats the way it is (it's unfair so it's probably right!)

"You are a man, and i have a baby daughter, therefore you must want to rape her. To the streets with you!"

Disgusting.

If she hadn't been such a Daily Mail reader, the guy could have been a free and reliable baby-sitter.

Yes, just like that Little Britain sketch. "yurr baby is fine"

Err.... I'm guessing you mean the year before the face off between William the Conqueror, Harold Godwineson and Harald Hadraada?

Weren't the Romans bloody the foreigners too? They invaded Britain in 55/54BC, didn't they?

So trespassing is no longer illegal in the UK? Itinerant students, workers, and tourists can just set up camp in your front yard, eh? Locke's crypt should be tapped to run a turbine - probably power most of Essex.

I feel quite sorry for him. Kudos to him for trying his best in a hard situation - much better than sitting under a bridge drinking white cider.

I sincerely hope he wasn't just moved on by the police and then forgotten about.

Not being from the UK, I don't know much about the TV licenses. However, I would think that if he had a job where he could have afforded the two TVs he'd have paid the license(s?) then. It was after he lost his job that he moved into the shed.

I could be wrong but presuming she had a TV licence he wouldn't have needed one as one licence covers the whole property.

It seems everyone is missing the more serious issue hidden in the subtext: "He offered to do my gardening for free if I let him stay there. I've got a six-month-old daughter and I might have considered it if I didn't have her."

Darn you underfunded Banbury police constabulary, how many more child labour taskmasters will go unnoticed.

... where's the Playmobil reconstruction?

Coming over here, taking our sheds...

And I thought I *was* the Register / Nanoha demographic. Oh, well. I guess now I'll have to take comfort in being the *gay* Register / Nanoha demographic...

And so were the Damn'd Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Danes. (400ish - 1066)

Perhaps the poor fellow should get in touch with Arthur Jackson.

I hear that he has two sheds; surely he can spare one!

@Lee Dowling

Lithuanians don't need visas to work in the UK. Not that it stopped them before though.

@Vaidotas

I'd say this is a lame story as far as Lithuanians are concerned. It completely tarnished the image of cannibalistic criminal alcoholics roaming the EU. I mean what's up with that guy - lost his job, started gardening for free, was co-operative with the police? I'd be relieved to find out that the Telegraph and the police mixed something up and he's in fact an Estonian.

"I put some pot plants out and he even planted them in the garden one day."

And the cops didn't notice her little "homegrown" garden?

Paris, cause she likes a little pot too.

Not 100% sure but I think trespass is a "civil" thing not a "Criminal" thing so I think you can take some action (of some sort) to get some redress but it isn't a "criminal" offence

We'll be back to dominate your Island and then your hot 20 y.o. ladies will beg for a place in my Grandpa's "shed".

Peace.

Maybe she should have gotten another shed. I wonder if she considered the option. Do we know if her friends call her "two sheds"?