She is believed to have first made an application for a council house while living with her parents in Tower Hamlets in 2011. She then married and moved in with her husband in 2014, but following their split, Apsana found council housing again just six months later despite having no children and there being a long waiting list. She said she was able to quickly find council housing due to the breakdown of her marriage in 2014 which left her in a “state of flux”. It is alleged she failed to tell Tower Hamlets Council that she was “no longer living in overcrowded conditions”, the report said, citing a court official. She has been politically active in Tower Hamlets for years and in her 20s worked for Labour mayor Lutfur Rahman, who was removed from office following electoral corruption.

Source: bd News24 October 29, 2020 20:15 UTC