Kind-hearted fresher invites homeless man to spend the night in Clive Booth

‘It was a strange but heartwarming experience’


A Media and Communication fresher was so drunk during Freshers Week she invited a homeless man to stay the night.

Kind-hearted Theodora Vida invited the man, named Bryn, to stay at her Clive Booth flat after a heavy session on Saturday. 

She told The Tab: “He told me he’d been homeless for 19 years and i just felt bad for him.

“It was a cold night and i saw it fitting to invite him to ours for the night. I also gave him a towel to have a shower and a pillow to sleep on.”

Bryn in his sleeping bag

Theodora followed through on her promise even after her new flat-mate downed some special brew and vomited next to another homeless mans face.

But the man was so grateful to the freshers’ hospitality he made them all cheese toasties to soak up the alcohol and even scrubbed their whole flat from top to bottom. He even played Candy Crush with them.

But fellow Clive Booth resident Tom Green was less than impressed to find a surprise visitor when he got home from his night out.

Tom explained: “I came in at around 6am and started making sardines on toast.

“Once I finished my snack I spotted a sleeping bag with a pair of Union Jack socks sticking out the bottom.

“I asked him who he was and he replied ‘mate they said I could stay’.

“I offered to put him on the porch and make him a toastie, but he’d already eaten all our bread, cheese, a chicken breast and one egg so he wasn’t hungry.

“He said he’d tidied the kitchen so he should be allowed to stay. I went to bed and when I woke up again at 11am Bryn was sat up playing Talking Tom Cat on his phone.

“I went back to bed and he must have left while we were asleep. We later found a signed bottle of Cream 15 per cent wine which said ‘From Bryn <3’.”

Flatmate Rhydian

Another flatmate, Publishing Media fresher Rhydian Evans said: “My roommate who walked in was really drunk he went in the kitchen to make sardines on toast. Once finished he turned around and saw a homeless man on the floor.”

“Needless to say he wasn’t too happy and started banging on my door. I opened up to see that he was standing there with a homeless man in a sleeping bag trying to defend his case. We just said lock your door and he won’t steal anything.”

Bryn later left the flatmates a bottle of fortified British wine

Charitable Theodora added: “I still think it was an okay thing to do despite what my flatmates said about it.

“He also contacted me yesterday over the  phone and I found out he now has his own flat.

“It was a strange but heartwarming experience.”