OAP is hit with £24k electricity bill and ordered to pay £2k a WEEK

A pensioner has been hit with a whopping £24,010 electricity bill for a house that is hardly used thanks to an allegedly faulty meter.

Lin Lawler, who owns Grange Farmhouse in Hainford, Norfolk, uses the five-bedroom house and adjoining annex as a holiday rental for just over 100 days a year.

But despite the limited use, energy supplier SmartestEnergy has issued the huge bill for the past year's consumption - and will cut off her power unless she agrees to pay it back at £2,022 per week, she claimed.

Ms Lawler, 70, said: 'I just can't afford it. They've got their hands around my throat and their hands in my pocket.'

Ms Lawler's holiday let - which is available for £2,195 for seven nights - is situated on a 50-acre farm with a koi pond.