Couple billed 12,000 by water companies for leak that didn’t exist | UK News [Video]

A couple were asked to fork out £12,000 by two water companies for a leak that didn’t exist.

Anna Pearce, 44, and her husband Andrew, 45, moved into their Cowden, a village in Kent, home with their two children in February 2018.

But they were only months later handed a £7,000 water bill from Southern Water (SW) and a £5,000 bill from Sutton and East Surrey Water (SES Water).

The pair of property workers, who have since moved to West Sussex, said engineers sent to their semi-detached property couldn’t find where this leak was.

But a local contractor working in the area the following year realised that the five-digit bill was due to a nearby water plant – the meter was on Anna and Andrew’s driveway.

Contacting the providers, SES Water wrote off its half of the bill but SW sent debt collectors knocking on the couple’s door for the …