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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Robert Firth & Katie L Wilson

Family’s leaky flat is so damp they’re woken up by water ‘raining’ on them

The conditions of a family’s council flat are so bad, they're forced to sleep in wet beds, they claim.

Maria Sousa, a cleaner who lives on the Central Hill Estate in Gipsy Hill, south London, says she often returns home from work to water running down the walls of her home.

The 56-year-old claims that the refugee kids she looks after are sometimes woken up by water dripping on them from the ceiling, and she runs a dehumidifier all day to stop damp ruining the walls.

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