A disabled woman faces another fortnight of misery after being left unable to wash for over a week while she has a new bathroom fitted.

Farah Jones, who uses a wheelchair, wanted to be re-housed when she discovered it would take three weeks to fit a new wet room at her home in Albemarle Gardens, New Malden.

The multiple sclerosis sufferer had been handed a disability grant by Kingston Council to give her more independence.

But since workmen turned up on April 30 she has not been able to shower, had to clean her teeth in the kitchen sink and had to go to the toilet on a portable loo.

The Surrey Comet contacted an officer at Kingston Council on her behalf last Friday, yet by the time the paper went to press nothing had been done to help her.

Miss Jones lives with 23-year-old daughter Jade and her boyfriend, who were able to get to the swimming baths to shower, something her debilitating illness prevented her from doing.

The 50-year-old said: “I can’t believe the council would do something like this to me, I feel so upset and disappointed.

“I can’t shower so I feel dirty every morning. I wake up every morning in a state and just cry my eyes out.

“I just can’t have this for another two weeks, I am going out of mind. I feel like a tramp not able to wash in the morning. They need to sort this out.”

A spokesman for Kingston Council apologised for Miss Jones’s discomfort but said the work was being carried out by a contractor, not the council.

He said: “We are, however, in contact with Miss Jones to assist her during the works and are looking into arranging access to shower facilities at one of our resource centres if she wishes to, until the work is completed.”

Miss Jones has been in contact with Kingston Centre for Independent Living (KCIL), which has also been fighting her corner with the council’s adult care team.

KCIL chief executive Theo Harris said: “We have been in contact with the council and hope to get a resolution for Mrs Jones as soon as possible.”