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Naissance : 27 juillet 1920 - Londres, Angleterre
Activité antérieure : étudiant / scolaire
Nationalité : Britannique
Engagement dans la France Libre : Londres en décembre 1942
Affectation principale : Terre - Londres / Aux.Fém.Arm.Terre
Décès à 93 ou 94 ans - 2014 - Londres
Dossier administratif de résistant : GR 16 P 287741
Dans la liste d'Henri Ecochard V40 : ligne 6721 / ligne 24241 |
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 " Landlord fined £10,000 over 92-year-old war heroine living in his dangerous squalid flat for 12 years
A widow of 92 decorated for wartime bravery while working in London for the French Resistance today revealed her 12 years of hell at the hands of her landlord.
Helen Bora was trapped in her flat when a ceiling collapsed and she endured flooding and mouse infestations, but owner John Garvey refused to do anything about it.
He has now been fined £10,000 with £3,364 costs by Highbury magistrates for failing to comply with two improvement notices on the Grade II-listed building in Bloomsbury.
Mrs Bora, who has heart and respiratory problems and osteoarthritis, claimed her health suffered as a result of her living conditions.
She said she had to block holes in her windows with plastic bags because Mr Garvey refused to repair the damage, and that she was scared to use the plug sockets in the flat as she believed the electrical system was faulty.
She had to use pliers to turn a tap on and off and the lavatory would not flush.
Mrs Bora, whose only daughter lives in America and whose husband died in 1961, was finally rehoused after environmental health officers from Camden council were so concerned by the state of the flat they moved her to Hampstead.
Mr Garvey, director of Frankfield Properties Limited, lives in Ireland and did not attend court.
Mrs Bora said: “It affected my health badly and I felt frustrated and angry. That’s what I’ve got against this country, that they let people who live abroad buy properties and not look after them. They should be compelled to use a property management company.
“We had a fall of a complete ceiling in a rainstorm about 18 months ago. Great pieces of plaster and rubble descended on the communal staircase and there was no one to ask.
“I phoned Camden council and said, ‘I don’t know what to do, I can’t get out of the flat’. Things from there got worse and worse. The tap came off in the kitchen and I had to use pliers to use it, and the toilet cistern broke.
“The place was infested with mice from day one, I spent a fortune on it. They were running through the pipes and they will ruin anything.”
Mrs Bora is believed to be one of the last surviving decorated members of a team who worked directly with General Charles de Gaulle as part of the Resistance during the Second World War.
She would speak from London to Resistance agents operating in occupied territory. “It was very secret,” she said. An interview she gave about her wartime work is part of an archive at the Imperial War Museum.
Camden cabinet member for community safety, Abdul Hai, said: “This is a particularly upsetting case, involving a highly vulnerable lady. We have a duty to protect residents in cases like this and I hope this acts as a warning to landlords that we will always take enforcement action where necessary.
“It could have been quite a different outcome if our officers had not been so diligent. I hope Mrs Bora continues to be very happy in her new home.”
Mr Garvey was not available for comment."
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Helen Juliette Bora (Healey)
Birthdate:27 Juillet 1920
Birthplace:London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Death:2014 (93-94)
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Famille proche :
Épouse de Sureyya Mehmet Bora
Mère de Juliette Emel Bora
Managed by: Dogan Bora
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