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camera that he had installed on the inner
                 communal/fire door on the ground floor of the
                 block. He informed me that he would not be
                 removing the camera as he believed he was legally
                 allowed to have the camera as the communal area
                 was his. I explained that he was in breach of his
                 tenancy conditions as permission had not been
                 sought or granted for the installation and he could
                 not install anything in the communal area as this
                 belonged to the Council. He maintained that his
                 neighbour in another block had a camera and had
                 taken the Council to court about it and won the
                 case. I responded that I could not comment about
                 other cases but my position remains as per the
                 letter I sent: That the camera was in breach of
                 tenancy conditions, was invasive to the privacy of
                 other residents in the block as it points at the outer
                 communal door and should be removed by Friday
                 25th November or the Council will remove it and
                 charge him for the cost of doing so. He then said
                 that the camera was fake so it didn’t need to be
                 removed. I responded that it did still need to be
                 removed. His voice was raised throughout the
                 exchange and I had to ask him to calm down and
                 lower his voice more than once. He then said that
                 he wanted to move on to finding out about moving
                 to another address. He proceeded to give me a full
                 history of his experiences with the police and
                 previous housing management and alleged that
                 ‘Jackie’, who had previously lived above him and
                 ‘Stan’, his immediate neighbour on the ground
                 floor, had victimised him over a long period of
                 time and that he had done nothing wrong. This
                 history was very full and it was difficult to get a
                 word in because he was so worked up so I let him
                 relay the information to me as it seemed like he
                 wanted to get it off of his chest. He was very
                 derogatory about the police and previous housing
                 staff who had signed a request for an Asbo
                 application against him. I told him that I could not
                 comment about previous action taken. He then
                 came on to more recent events and stated that
                 there had been an incident between him and
                 another resident where she had shouted at him out
                 of her window because of him starting up a
                 scrambler bike in his garden. He maintained that
                 he was courteous during the exchange but the
                 police came and arrested him because she told
                 them that he had threatened to kill her and that he
                 had been put in the mental hospital, had won his
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