Mother and four children offered flat by council but pictures show state of serious disrepair

A single mother and her four children are the last remaining family on an east London housing estate that is being demolished around them, in a case described as “beyond shocking”.

Demolition work on Marian Court, a council estate in Hackney, began in February, while the woman was home-schooling her children, aged five to 13, during lockdown. Residents have described severe noise and disruption, and claim the family’s water and broadband have regularly been cut off.

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