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A POLICE OFFICER SECRETLY EMAILED A LANDLORD TO GET A DISABLED TENANT EVICTED. CAMDEN COUNCIL HID EMAILS FROM THE OMBUDSMAN. THIS IS WHAT AN INSIDE JOB LOOKS LIKE. Someone messaged me on X a few weeks ago. His name is Ray Hanson @tenant49273533. He has disabilities. He sent me a pile of official documents and asked me to look at them. I did. Ray was living in a garden shed in Camden, North London. Not a converted one. Not a nice one. An illegal one. With rats. No heating. No hot water. Wires hanging out of a window. A toilet not fixed to the wall. A shower that did not work. And Camden Council knew about it since 2006. A formal Enforcement Notice was issued against the property that year. The notice said a building had been constructed in the back garden without planning permission and people were living in it. Illegal. Written down. Filed. Then Camden did what Camden apparently does best. Nothing. Fourteen years passed. Ray ended up living there. In July 2020 Camden's own Environmental Health Officer finally visited and condemned the place on the spot. No fixed heating. A broken skylight. Rat holes in the front garden. A shower that did not work. A toilet hanging off the wall. A sink falling away from the wall. Dangerous electrics with wires going out through an open window. A kitchen so bad it was declared unsafe. Camden's own document describes Ray as an extremely vulnerable tenant facing a very real risk of serious harm over winter. They banned the property from being used as a home. That was July 2020. Now remember that date. Because housing benefit records show £22,880 being paid directly to Ray's landlord in October 2021. Fifteen months after Camden condemned the property. With a weekly payment of £260 still running. Public money. Your taxes. Flowing to a landlord for accommodation that Camden's own officers had declared unfit and illegal. Nobody stopped it. Nobody joined the dots. Or maybe they just did not want to. Then it gets worse. In January 2021 a Metropolitan Police officer sent an email directly to Ray's landlord. Not to Ray. To the landlord. The email is on official Metropolitan Police headed paper with a verified collar number, station address, and direct phone numbers. He asked the landlord what his plans were for moving Ray out. He said that once Ray was gone all the problems would be solved. He told the landlord he had a vested interest in making that happen. He then referenced police powers to issue Community Protection Notices in the same email. A serving police officer emailing a private landlord asking when he planned to evict a disabled tenant living in a property that had already been condemned. When Ray complained about this email a Met officer accused him of fabricating it and threatened him with a criminal review. The email is on official police headed paper with a verified collar number. So who fabricated what exactly. While all this was happening Ray complained to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, official case reference 20 003 347. During that investigation an internal Camden Council email surfaced. A senior manager wrote to colleagues including the officer who signed the Prohibition Order and asked whether there were any past emails they would not want uploaded to the Ombudsman because of the sensitivity of relationship building. A council manager asking his team which emails to hide from the official investigation. In writing. On a council email system. Ray took his case to court. The judge confirmed everything. The property was an illegal construction, unfit for human habitation, with rats, no heating, no hot water and dangerous electrics. Ray Hanson was awarded £58,567.80 in damages. He won. Then Camden Council went back to court and got him labelled a serial litigant. Because Ray had brought multiple claims about what happened to him, Camden's lawyers argued he was abusing the system. In November 2024 a General Civil Restraint Order was placed on him meaning he needed a judge's permission before making any further legal applications. So when the possession hearing came in May 2025 Ray could not defend himself. His application was dismissed before it was even heard. The court granted possession to the landlord and said Ray owed £27,320 in rent arrears. Just pause on those two numbers. Ray won £58,567.80 in damages from his landlord. Then a court said he owed that same landlord £27,320. Same man. Same landlord. Same condemned illegal shed. On 11 August 2025 police arrived at the property with taser guns and removed Ray Hanson by force. He was arrested and charged on the same day. He has been street homeless ever since. He is still homeless now. Still dealing with this. Still not resolved. A disabled man. Housed in an illegal shed that Camden flagged in 2006. Condemned by their own officer in 2020. Public money paid to the landlord for over a year after that. A police officer working with the landlord behind his back. Council staff asking which emails to hide from investigators. A court victory worth nearly sixty thousand pounds that changed nothing. A legal order used to silence him. Armed police. Arrest. The street. Camden called him the problem. And if you think this is an isolated case, last week @SkyNews reported that Camden Council is now facing legal action from families whose children were abused at a West Hampstead nursery for seven years while Camden looked the other way. Different victims. Same council. Same pattern. Issue a notice. Start a review. Avoid accountability. Move on. Ray Hanson is real. He is sleeping rough while Camden Council sits in its Town Hall on Judd Street. The documents are real. The court judgment is real. The Prohibition Order is real. The police email is real. The housing benefit payments are real. @Victoria_Rixon @MLorrM @johnmcdonnellMP @premnsikka @stevemiddi1 @nw_nicholas

I was trying to record a serious video for my son's music audition, then this happened 😂

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Who wants to watch @PaulGolding shit himself in public even when surrounded by his @BFirstParty security team, and then lose even more tough guy “credibility” by hiding behind police officers for extra protection.

what you need to understand about recommending a show to me is that no matter how much we both know I'll like it, I can't watch it until the Neurodivergence Department in my brain approves it. I don't know when that will be, and I don't have any more control over it than you do.

This is fucking brilliant

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Alex Armstrong has blocked me - he hates it when people remind him of his tweet - please don't plaster it over his posts, he gets very upset

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