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Daily Mirror
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Ruby Gregory & Melissa Sigodo

Family-of-six trapped in mouldy studio flat told they must wait 13 YEARS for bigger home

A family of five and a baby have been forced to live in a studio flat ridden with mould where they have dinner on the floor due to a lack of space.

Mohamed Abubakar, his wife Rasha Al-Buriahi and their four children of whom the youngest is one-year-old, have to eat and sleep in the same room of their overcrowded home in Tower Hamlets, east London.

The cramped area is packed with a double bed and two single beds on either side and is infested with mould which has kept their nine-year-old daughter awake with a constant cough.

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