Council evictions begin

ruggedtoast

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024605/UK-riots-Daniel-Sartain-Clarkes-family-evicted-Wandsworth-Council.html

A suspected looter in this week’s riots and his mother are being thrown out of their council home.

In the first case of its kind, Daniel Sartain-Clarke, 18, and his mother have been served with an eviction notice as council bosses seek to turf them out of their £225,000 taxpayer-subsidised flat.

‘As a mother, I’m not responsible for my son’s actions and they are penalising me for his actions.’

The part-time worker said the decision had left her ‘very upset’ and she did not know where she and daughter Revecca, eight, would go.

They'll go straight down to the council office who will have to give them another council flat or sort out a vastly more expensive private rental for them.

What a complete tokenistic waste of time and upheaval of an innocent 8 year old girls life. With that for a mother and brother she has enough stacked against her already.

By all means put the chav in prison and chuck him out but I just dont understand the logic of doling out a lenient sentence and then punishing the family.

System

‘As a mother, I’m not responsible for my son’s actions and they are penalising me for his actions.’

She should be locked up as well for that comment

StevieJ

Looks to me like they have had this family in the cross hair for a while, this gave them the excuse to pull the trigger. It should be interesting when the first white family are pitched out of their accomodation by a minority run council, I wonder about the reaction from the BNP and EDL.

Last night Ravi Govindia, the leader of Wandsworth Council, which issued the eviction notice, said he wanted the ‘strongest possible action’ taken against rioters and looters.

Barneysmom

She clearly hasn't taught him any morals or manners. If he was my son I'd swipe him for wearing that hat in the house, no for wearing it full stop.


£225,000 for that dump? :eek:

StevieJ

I have to say it looks to me like they have played their hand early on this one, maybe it is some jumped up jobswoth trying to get his name in lights?

He appeared before magistrates in Battersea on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to burglary and violent disorder. He and two co-defendants were remanded in custody.

pqrdef

"Under housing rules his mother – as the tenant – can be evicted from their two-bedroom flat in Battersea if anyone living there is involved in criminality."

Is that legal? If so, why?

toadyfrog

I don't think evictions is a good idea because they will only end up rehousing them somewhere else. I still don't know a good way of dealing with them.

tomterm8

Joeskeppi wrote: »

She should be locked up as well for that comment

A parent is not responsible for the actions of an 18 year old. Adults are responsible for their own actions.

StevieJ

Barneysmom wrote: »

She clearly hasn't taught him any morals or manners. If he was my son I'd swipe him for wearing that hat in the house, no for wearing it full stop.


£225,000 for that dump? :eek:

Actually it is probably a pretty good location there. I have just realised they are probably Chelsea fans, oh well never mind

Graham_Devon

Any sympathy I may have had, was lost when I saw the tired old line "what about my human rights".

But Sartain-Clarke’s mother said her human rights had been ‘taken for granted’.


Spanish-born Maite de la Calva, 43, said: ‘I understand there are people who have got to face justice because all this has been madness and savagery.
‘But, I believe our human rights have been completely taken for granted. Daniel was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
‘As a mother, I’m not responsible for my son’s actions and they are penalising me for his actions.’

She's also saying it's unfair on her son, he wasn't wearing a balaclava, and does a lot for the community. Great. That doesn't mean you can therefore vandalise and loot it.

She also added his girlfriend had a good career ahead of her, as if it's the polices fault for ruining it....she shouldn't have been rioting, simple as. There is absolutely no sign in any of the words published of any remorse for what he son did.

Sorry, but not much sympathy from myself. She'll get re-housed, probably in the same area due to schooling. It's some upheavel, but if all she can say is "my human rights are being taken for granted" then I'm afraid I lose sympathy.

Completely innocent people have also lost their homes, personal belongings and business due to arson and vandalism, what about their human rights?

Her son freely chose to take part in the actions. These are the consequences.

StevieJ

Might be a good idea to wait until they are found guilty before vilifying them