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previous housing managers who had promised
him that they would re-lay the floor of flat 113 but
had not done so. At this point the resident from
117, Mr Mathiyalakan Markandu, came down the
stairs on his way out of the building. As he came
down past us Mr Cordell focussed his attention on
him and said to him: ‘I’m going to the police
station now with my evidence about you and I’m
going to ruin your life’. Mr Mathiyalakan
Markandu did not respond and proceeded to walk
past and go down the stairs and out of the
building.
Both Steve Stirk and I commented to Mr Cordell
that the way he had behaved was threatening in
nature and Was not acceptable. Mr Cordell
responded, ‘it’s not a threat it’s a fact’. He then
continued to repeat his history with the police and
previous housing management.

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CLAIM NUMBER: D02EDO73

IN THE EDMONTON COUNTY COURT

BETWEEN:

{CLAIMANT}

THE MAYOR AND BURGESSES OF THE
LONDON BOROUGH OF ENFIELD

-AND-

(DEFENDANT)

MR SIMON CORDELL

DIRECTIONS ORDER

I asked Mr Cordell to calm down and tried to
explain that some of these issues could have been
addressed by attending the meeting that Lemmy
Nwabusi in the CSU team had tried to convene
with him. He. said that he was not prepared to
attend such a meeting but wanted to speak to me,
his housing officer, now. I explained that as Steve
Stirk had already said that we could not address
his issues there and then I suggested that a
meeting could be convened with both the CSU