I’m homeless & living in my car after my neighbour’s flat fire destroyed my home – no one will help me

AN OAP couple's location has been wholly destroyed aft their neighbour's cannabis-filled level caught occurrence - and they've been surviving successful a car ever since.

Sue Clarke, 71, and her spouse Alan Connolly, 66, were terrifyingly woken 5 weeks agone to the property supra them successful flames aft having antecedently complained astir the drug farm.

As they stood by and helplessly watched occurrence crews tackle the blaze for two-and-a-half-hours, h2o flooded retired their home and made it unlivable.

The couple, from Potters Bar, Herts., assertion they've had zero assistance from their property cause oregon section assembly for implicit a period and person relied connected household to sofa-surf.

Retired bureau idiosyncratic Sue told The Sun if a person oregon loved one's location isn't large capable for the some of them, Alan resorts to sleeping in the car.

She said: "It's 5 weeks today, and we've inactive not been offered a place, adjacent successful a hostel.

"We've rung and my spouse hasn't stopped trying to get america a spot to stay.

"I've been sleeping connected sofas and my spouse has chiefly been sleeping successful the car.

"And erstwhile helium told the assembly that sometimes radical connection their settees to us, they said 'Oh truthful you're not stateless present then' and haven't tried to find america anyplace since.

"We're some aged property pensioners, and the assembly is expected to connection you thing erstwhile you're homeless done nary responsibility of your own.

"We should beryllium fixed determination to live. We're homeless.

"I consciousness similar a load connected my kids. I'm doing each their washing, making them meal and their housework arsenic a convey you."

Sue and Alan's location is portion of a artifact of six flats supra a Nisa Local shop.

Shocking images from wrong the once-humble abode amusement mounds of plaster, that has been soaked disconnected the walls, successful a heap connected the floor.

Holes person started to signifier successful the ceiling - with Sue expecting it to cave successful immoderate time now.

And mould has already started to signifier connected paintings she was forced to permission behind.

The balcony is covered successful heavy achromatic rubble and pain marks arsenic flamed remnants from supra fell onto their property.

Windows and doors person been boarded up with h2o shadows inactive connected the bulk of walls wherever they're inactive damp immoderate weeks later.

Sue added: "Everything was drenched due to the fact that it took two-and-a-half-hours to enactment the occurrence out.

"Their ceiling collapsed onto their floor, which is our ceiling, truthful it's going to beryllium falling successful soon. It's atrocious successful there."

LANDLORD WITHOUT INSURANCE

As Sue recalls the infinitesimal Alan shook her awake the terrifying night, she told however they've mislaid everything and are present surviving day-to-day retired of bin bags.

She said: "I was successful bed. My spouse came successful shaking, saying, 'There's a occurrence successful the level supra us. Get up, get out! get up!'.

"So determination were loads of radical outside, each shouting, but cipher had called the occurrence brigade, truthful my spouse called the occurrence brigade, and determination was tons of smoke.

"At archetypal we couldn't adjacent spot the flames. We didn't cognize what was happening.

"The radical supra our level were increasing cannabis. About 3 weeks previously, we had h2o coming done the ceilings.

"All the cannabis odor came done the walls onto everything I own. All my clothes. Everything, everything.

"We mislaid everything. It's terrible, and I don't cognize wherever immoderate of my things are. I'm conscionable surviving day-to-day retired of bags."

According to Sue, her landlady does not person security and simply told Maloney's estate agents, who she rents the level retired with, 'Tell them I'm sorry'.

"She's not adjacent contacted us," Sue raged.

"But she said to the property agents 'Just archer them I'm sorry'.

"We told the property cause [about the cannabis weeks ago] and we had to spell up determination successful the end. They didn't bash anything."

Hertfordshire Police said: "Officers are inactive appealing for accusation successful narration to an incidental successful Station Road, Cuffley which occurred betwixt 11pm, and 11.14pm connected Wednesday 21 August.

Detectives judge the occurrence could person been started deliberately successful the flat, which was wholly destroyed successful the blaze, and are treating the incidental arsenic arson."

Anyone with accusation tin report it online, speech to an serviceman via web chat, oregon telephone 101 quoting 41/69773/24.

Maloney's property agents was contacted for comment.

Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council was besides contacted.