Pensioner kicks up a stink in smelly flat row

A pensioner repeatedly called police to his neighbours home to investigate what he claimed was a foul smell coming from the flat. Malcolm Leavesly, 67, banged on Khadra Sarman’s front door in the early hours and called the fire brigade to the flat above in Heylyn Square, Bow, east London. Kirsten Marenaah, prosecuting, told Stratford Magistrates: ‘The complainant lives in the flat below the defendant. ‘The defendant has a belief that an obnoxious smell originating from his neighbour’s flat emanates…