A BENGALI FAMILY LIVING ON A CAMDEN COUNCIL ESTATE

A BENGALI FAMILY LIVING ON A CAMDEN COUNCIL ESTATE HAVE

SUFFERED FIVE YEARS OF RACIAL HARASSMENT FROM NEIGHBOURS, IT WAS

CLAIMED ON MONDAY.

THE ALI FAMILY AND VISITORS TO THEIR FLAT IN THE BLEMUNDSBURY

(COR) BLOCK, DOMBEY STREET, HOLBORN, WERE SPAT ON AND CALLED ‘BLACK

BASTARDS’ AND ‘FUCKING PAKIS’.

ON ONE OCCASION ONE OF THE SONS OF MR ABDUL ALI WAS ASSAULTED

BY 17 YEAR OLD FRANK HAWKINS WHO LATER SMASHED A WINDOW AT THE ALI

FLAT.

AT CLERKENWELL COUNTY COURT CAMDEN COUNCIL APPLIED UNDER

THE 1980 HOUSING ACT FOR A POSSESSION ORDER TO EVICT MRS MARIA

HAWKINS AND HER SONS, CHARLES, 22, AND FRANK, FROM THEIR HOME IN THE

BLEMUNDSBURY BLOCK.

MR WILLIAM PANTON, REPRESENTING THE COUNCIL, SAID THE ALI’S

HAD SUFFERED RACIAL HARASMENT FROM THE HAWKINS’ SINCE 1981 IN BREACH

OF THE COUNCIL’S TENANCY AGREEMENT.

‘ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS FRANK HAWKINS HAS SPAT AT VISITORS

TO THE ALI FLAT AND SHOUTED ABUSE – ON TOO MANY OCCASIONS TO GIVE

PARTICULARS,’ HE SAID.

‘HE HAS SHOUTED ”BLACK C+++, ”BLACK BASTARD” AND ”FUCKING

PAKI” AT MR ALI, HIS FAMILY AND VISITORS.

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MR PANTON SAID FRANK HAWKINS FACED CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR AN

ASSAULT ON ANOTHER SON, MUGBAL ALI, IN JUNE THIS YEAR, AND FOR

CAUSING #177 DAMAGE AFTER SMASHING A WINDOW.

HAWKINS HAS DENIED THE ALLEGATIONS.

MR PANTON SAID: ‘FRANK HAWKINS SPAT AT MUGBAL ALI AND

ATTACKED HIM BY PUNCHING HIM AND BRANDISHING A BOTTLE.

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THREE DAYS EARLIER FRANK HAWKINS IS ALLEGED TO HAVE ABUSED

THE OTHER SON, ABBAS, AND ‘SCUFFLED’ WITH HIM.

MR PANTON ADDED: ‘FRANK HAWKINS HAS ALSO SWORN AND SPAT AT MR

ALI.

THIS HAS HAPPENED ON MANY OCCASTIONS , SOME TWO OR THREE TIMES A

MONTH.

HE ALSO SHOUTED ”YOU PAKI BLACK BASTARD, YOU ARE NOT WANTED

HERE” AND THROWN A LIGHTED CIGARETTE AT HIM’.

HE SAID THE HARRASMENT HAD COME FROM BOTH FRANK AND CHARLES

HAWKINS AND IN JULY MR ALI WAS SPAT ON AND ‘THREATENED WITH REPRISALS

IF HE GAVE EVIDENCE AT THIS COURT’.

MR PANTON ADDED THAT CAMDEN TENANTS HAD BEEN SENT A LETTER

WARNING ABOUT RACIAL HARASMENT, LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY, AND THAT THE

COUNCIL WOULD TREAT VERY SERIOUSLY ANY ALLEGATIONS.

IT ALSO INVITED TENANTS TO MAKE COMPLAINTS IF THEY HAD BEEN

SUBJECTED TO RACIAL ATTACKS.

MRS MARIA HAWKINS ALSO FACES EVICTION FOR AN UNPAID #138

HEATING BILL AND ALLOWING A MONGREL DOG CALLED ‘SAM’ TO RETURN TO THE

ESTATE.

SHE HAS LODGED A COUNTER CLAIM SAYING HER FAMILY HAS BEEN

SUBJECTED TO HARRASMENT BY THE ALIS.

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