
A seven-year-old boy has been repeatedly hospitalised with severe stomach infections that a doctor warned could be life-threatening after filthy sewage flooded their London council home for seven years.
Zeeshan Hashem developed Crohn's disease and constant stomach problems after dirty water contaminated with animal faeces, thought to be from a damaged pipe in the floors above them, repeatedly poured into the family’s two-bedroom Leytonstone flat since the first Christmas they spent there in 2016.