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Robert Kummer, 36, caused 15,000 euros (£10,000) worth of damage to the flat and the smell was so bad that the police were called by neighbours who thought it must be a dead body.

Sick Kummer, a German national who worked for computer giants Apple in the Irish city of Cork, admitted intentionally or recklessly causing criminal damage to a rented apartment.

Lorraine O’Donovan, an officer with the Irish Garda, told Cork Circuit Criminal Court she went to the apartment in the city centre after tenants contacted a lettings agent to complain about the smell.

The agents had been unable to contact Kummer despite trying for three months.

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Ms O’Donovan said Kummer came up to her and, when asked about the smell, he lied said he had only just returned from a trip to America.

She said she asked him to open the door and was confronted by the sight and smell of bags of poo all over the place.

She said: "On opening the front door the most bizarre and unbelievable conditions were observed. There was clothing everywhere and bags of excrement.

"I could see excrement all over the bedroom and there were bottles of yellow substance," she said.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin interrupted and said: "It might be better if I use my imagination."

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Firefighters were even called and a CSI team was called but they ruled out any serious crime.

Kummer told the cops he had stopped caring after his mother became ill with cancer.

After Kummer left the owner of the flat had to tear up all the flooring.

Cops remained baffled because the toilet worked perfectly well.

Sentencing him, Judge Ó Donnabháin said it was "a most unusual and very bizarre case".