A prolific child sex offender befriended a family and babysat their two young children, buying them sweets, ice cream and toys, a court heard.
11.11.2023 - 10:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A family of four had to sleep in one bed to keep warm after being left without heating in a shell of a house. The property in Salford needs '£20,000-worth' of improvements, but Nathaniel Finlay and his partner and children say they have been left in limbo due to delays in the work being completed.
The family moved into the housing association property on Hilton Lane, Walkden, in February 2020, but they say that within three months it was apparent there was a problem with damp. Nathaniel, 31, and his partner Natalie Riley, have been living in the house with their son, aged four, and daughter, seven.
The housing association which owns the property insists that damp issues are not related to any historic issue but occurred more recently due to a leak. They estimate that the cost of the work done is £6,000.
Nathaniel said: "We have been living in a property for the last two and a half years with excessive mould and damp problems. We have two young children in the address with their room reading the highest for damp.
"It has taken two years for the work to start. With the work being described as extensive and a cost of around £20,000 to fix we were told we would not be able to live in the address and would be moved. However our request to be moved was refused and we were told we would have to live here while the work is being completed and they would do room by room."
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The work commenced at the end of October. "Two days into the work it was like a bombsite, brick and dust everywhere and they moved us to a hotel because they
A prolific child sex offender befriended a family and babysat their two young children, buying them sweets, ice cream and toys, a court heard.
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