Gym staff were left retching when a foul-mouthed man allegedly defecated in their changing room showers - and he wasn't even a member.

Gym owner Ben Bardsley was horrified when staff alerted him to a member of public who was reportedly getting abusive at Holben’s Health and Fitness in Stockport, Greater Manchester, on Wednesday.

Two female members of staff claim they had tried to confront a man who had used their showers, only for him to refuse to pay and threaten them with a barrage of abuse.

However the women had no idea what was in store for them when they followed a 'vile’ smell that he had left in the showers, stinking out the entire gym.

One staff member named Kirsty, who did not wish to give her surname, discovered faeces splattered throughout the four showers.

Meanwhile, one shower head had been broken off and seemingly used to try to 'find something in the man's bum'.

Poor Kirsty and her colleague had no choice but to clean up the 'disgusting' mess - leaving the duo 'nearly throwing up' throughout the clean-up operation.

Horrifying images show the mess that was discovered after the man left as well as photos of the alleged perpetrator outside the venue showing staff his middle finger.

Ben, 38, remained on Facetime with his staff throughout as he watched the shocking incident unfold and then witnessed their horrible discovery.

Ben, from Stockport, said: “They were both retching and had to run out the toilet to compose themselves because they were just obviously finding more and more of it.

“The pictures don’t do it justice.

“I only showed a little bit of it [in the photos] - there was poo all down four showers, bits of it up the walls and everything.

“The little splatters of poo were everywhere and it wasn’t even like dog poo where you can pick it up.”

Kirsty, also of Stockport, said: “I was at the counter with another female member of staff.

“We have a policy that members come straight to the counter and sign in, but he just walked past. We asked if he was ok and he ignored us.

“So [my colleague] walked down to look where he’d gone.

“She couldn’t find him in the gym and I was aware that there were only four other members in at the time and I could see them in the gym, so I said that must be him in the shower.

“We peeped our head around the men’s. You can’t see the showers but you can see the benches.

“He’d put metres and metres of blue roll on a bench and stacked it up really high.

“I thought this is really weird, he’s just come for a shower, not brought a towel or a change of clothes and clearly he’s got blue roll to dry himself - that’s a bit crazy.”

After the man reappeared 30 minutes later, Kirsty asked if he had used the shower and kindly asked for him to pay - but soon the situation became ‘completely out of control’.

Kirsty said: “He came out and just walked up the corridor and stormed passed us.

“I said ‘excuse me you’re going to have to pay for a day pass’ and he just used vile language and was very aggressive - I was scared.

“I put Ben on Facetime and he was absolutely raging and kept running, stepping towards and spitting at me.”

Ben claimed that the man was very threatening but was unfazed when they photographed him.

Ben said: “He was saying ‘I’ll come and get you, you’re both dead, you’re better be careful you don’t know who I am and who you’re messing with'.

“I stayed on the phone and got some videos and pictures which I posed of him and he didn’t care at all and was posing for the camera.”

Kirsty followed the man out of the gym and managed to snap some photographs before the culprit fled the scene - but she soon made the discovery in the shower.

Kirsty said: “At this point only he knew what he’d done in the showers so I think he was getting away from the situation as quick as he could.

“There was a disgusting smell and we opened the showers and the faeces was splattered everywhere.

“It was all over the shower and the curtains were broken - it was disgusting.

“The whole bottom end of the gym stunk, luckily there was only one other member at the gym and he hadn’t been in the changing rooms.

“You could see that it wasn’t an accident and that’s the worst thing, it absolutely stunk - it was awful.”

The women had no idea ‘where to start’ with the clean up process which took them 30 minutes.

Kirsty said: “I had to leave the room a few times because the stench was vile - it was really bad.

“I was nearly sick and just gagged and left the room and then we put on three pairs of gloves and had to clean it up.

“We held our breath, put our jumpers over our noses and managed to do it all in one go.”

After the initial shock, staff have been left baffled by the ‘strange’ incident.

Ben said: “It’s such a lovely clean gym and the staff are so adamant about cleaning - it was a big shock to us.

“We’ve had the gym for around ten years and never had anything like this at all.”

Greater Manchester Police confirmed the incident had not been reported to them.