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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Melissa Sigodo

Disabled woman forced to use stick from wheelchair to clean toxic mould off roof

A disabled woman said she has been forced to use a long reach stick to clean toxic mould and damp on her ceilings since reporting a leak six years ago.

Wheelchair-user Kerdesan Gallardo, 44, who became paralysed after contracting polio, lives in a ‘neglected’ and cramped two-bedroom home with her husband and children, aged 18 and eight.

The Mirror visited her poorly-ventilated flat in the shadow of Grenfell Tower, where a walk through the neighbourhood is a painful reminder of the horrific blaze that claimed 72 lives.

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