Somali asylum seekers in 6 bedroomed £2m house

[Dedworth]

The madness continues

A family of asylum seekers has moved into a £2million home in one of the country’s most exclusive neighbourhoods at taxpayers’ expense.

Unemployed Saeed Khaliif is being handed almost £8,000 a month to pay the rent on his house, one of the most expensive ever to be funded by housing benefit.

The Somali refugee, 49, demanded to be moved to the six-bedroom property in West Hampstead, north-west London, with his wife Sayida and their children after deciding their previous accommodation was inadequate.

Their old house, in Coventry, also had six bedrooms but, at £1,000 a month, was a fraction of the burden on the Government.

The family say they wanted to be near friends and relatives in the capital.

But it is understood they left damage estimated at £600 in the Coventry property and did not pay their final month’s rent.

Their new home has a 90ft garden and has been recently refurbished, with an en suite master bedroom, modern kitchen and large living room. It is minutes from West Hampstead Underground station and the neighbourhood is home to comedian Stephen Fry and actress Emma Thompson.

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[Englishman2010]

I thought the coalition were trying to stop scrounging and waste of tax payers money. They've been in power over a year, surely it's long enough to stop spongers like this.

Anyone coming to the UK who wants welfare support should be given a tent, a camping stove and a sleeping bag - that's it. That's all they'd get in most EU states, who are also bound by the same laws we are

[joebloggs]

you have to laugh, took me nearly a yr to get a housing association house, and i was a priority, and it took me 6 months of painting, scrubbing, weeding and loads of , money, time and i had to pay the rent each week b4 it was decent enough to live in,

[scott&ligaya]

stuff like this just annoys the heck of the average citizen, and it stokes up the resentment, sort it out Cameron or the far right will grow in strength. Not a pleasant thought

[South-east boy]

This is exactly part of the reason why this country is in so much debt and loads of cut-backs have happend/will happen! Just unbelievable that it's still going on! I guess they'll just put petrol up more to keep paying for things like this!

[Arthur Little]

you have to laugh, took me nearly a yr to get a housing association house, and i was a priority, and it took me 6 months of painting, scrubbing, weeding and loads of , money, time and i had to pay the rent each week b4 it was decent enough to live in,

... surely, Joe ... that OUGHT to've been the responsibility of the Housing Association - to bring the accommodation up to a standard fit for habitation.

[joebloggs]

... surely, Joe ... that OUGHT to've been the responsibility of the Housing Association - to bring the accommodation up to a standard fit for habitation.

sorry Arthur you would have thought so, botched repairs , stole copper pipes, oh they decided to install a completely new heating system after i decorated the place

i could go on and on

[Terpe]

There must be something about this story that's not being mentioned surely.
It just can't be as simple an issue as is written.
Can it?

[scott&ligaya]

Indeed TERPE,
if this not lazy selective journalism to sell papers then it is truly upsetting, however if it is then the paper is could be seen as guilty of inciting racial hatred or at least irresponsible journalism.

[Arthur Little]

I remember spending a couple of weeks with a friend and his Malaysian wife living in London's East End ... where it really WAS exceedingly difficult to spot the native population among the huge influx of so-called "assylum seekers". My friend was 'Bed Allocations Manager' at a local hospital ... and he told me that these people frequently demanded - and were given ... precedence over - born-and-bred citizens for in-patient treatment.

[Arthur Little]

And that was six years ago ... God knows what it's like now!

[Dedworth]

Indeed TERPE,
if this not lazy selective journalism to sell papers then it is truly upsetting, however if it is then the paper is could be seen as guilty of inciting racial hatred or at least irresponsible journalism.

I'd have thought the Mail routinely runs stories past their legal people - can't see any racial hatred aspect though and the claimant seems quite media savvy

Mr and Mrs Khaliif refused to speak to the Mail yesterday. A handwritten note on their front door read ‘Media do not knock. We have nothing to say.’

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[scott&ligaya]

I would have thought so too Ded, and therefore it is probably factually correct and another expose of our crazy systems

[Dedworth]

I would have thought so too Ded, and therefore it is probably factually correct and another expose of our crazy systems

Scott - maybe some enraged looters jealous about "the rich" will come round and plunder their state funded 92 inch plasma tv

[imagine]

maybe they could do this for the poor looters as way of rehabilitation

[joebloggs]

i think the answer is here "but up to eight youngsters have been seen at the property." more work less , 4 bedroom council houses are rare, so it would be impossible to find a 6 bed one, so not to split the family up, the council had to rent a 6 bedroom house

[Ako Si Jamie]

A family of asylum seekers has moved into a £2million home in one of the country’s most exclusive neighbourhoods at taxpayers’ expense.

My friend was 'Bed Allocations Manager' at a local hospital ... and he told me that these people frequently demanded - and were given ... precedence over - born-and-bred citizens for in-patient treatment.

On top of that Tracie Andrews has walked free after serving only 14 years of a life sentence and had cosmetic surgery at a cost of £5k on the NHS.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ears-jail.html

Just goes to prove that if you're a criminal or an asylum seeker, this country puts you first! Makes me sick!

[South-east boy]

i think the answer is here "but up to eight youngsters have been seen at the property." more work less , 4 bedroom council houses are rare, so it would be impossible to find a 6 bed one, so not to split the family up, the council had to rent a 6 bedroom house

Don't bunk-beds exist anymore? Plenty of families that pay for their own home would love to have a bedroom each for each of their children, but they can't afford that! Somehow I don't think that somalie family will have a 6 bedroom home back in Somalia!

[Dedworth]

It turns out these leeches refused a 6 bedroomed house in Coventry

The family had rejected a previous six-bedroom home in Coventry - where the bill for the public would have been a more reasonable £1,000 a month - simply because they wanted to live ‘closer to their friends’.



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[scott&ligaya]

yes in fact they were in a house already in Coventry and left without paying the last months rent and left damage to £600, It sounds like they are given the benifet and then they pay the rent.. why is not paid directly to to the landlord to avoid them leaving without paying.. and surely if they kept the benifet that is theft!! Perhaps I am wrong but that is how it read i

[joebloggs]

dedworth dont let it get to you , watch your bloodpressure

crazy, if you refuse 3 'resonable' properties they ban you for 3 months from bidding on a house, thou i dont think this was done thru the proper procedures..

bunk beds yes, i wonder how many kids they have ??? problem is their ages you can expect a young boy or girl to share with a much older brother or sis, no idea how many kids they have,, i wonder if they are all theirs dna tests

what has happened to cameron softier than blair or brown...

country going bust, and paying £8k a month to support non brits

[Terpe]

dedworth dont let it get to you , watch your bloodpressure

crazy, if you refuse 3 'resonable' properties they ban you for 3 months from bidding on a house, thou i dont think this was done thru the proper procedures..

bunk beds yes, i wonder how many kids they have ??? problem is their ages you can expect a young boy or girl to share with a much older brother or sis, no idea how many kids they have,, i wonder if they are all theirs dna tests

what has happened to cameron softier than blair or brown...

country going bust, and paying £8k a month to support non brits

Mmmm, thanks for that joe, you know just how to calm me down.... (NOT)

[joebloggs]

i've been thru the process of getting a housing association house, the council are a bunch of , it's pretty difficult for most brits to get a council house, took me 1yr of bidding, many people bidding for a small number of houses, people know how the system works and jump the queue