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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
May Bulman

‘Just unacceptable’: Mother living in cockroach infested, mould-covered property with young children

Kwajo Tweneboa

A single mother living in a cockroach-infested, mould-covered new-build property with her young children has said she feels suicidal after enduring the poor housing conditions for a year.

Video footage posted on social media reveals a social housing flat in Lewisham with a front door that is so swollen it barely closes, dozens of cockroaches in a child’s bedroom and black mould across the walls.

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