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CABBIE KO’D BY £31K BILL

AN 82-year-old Clerkenwell “service charge martyr” is threatening to go to prison rather than pay a £31,000 contribution for repairs to his Grade II* listed estate.
Retired London cabbie and great grandfather Stephen Murphy got the shock of his life when Homes for Islington (HfI) – the privatised housing arm of Islington Council – sent him a bill for repairs to Spa Green Estate in Rosebery Avenue, opposite Sadler’s Wells.
He is one of 41 leaseholders, out of nearly 200 flats, hit by huge bills for a programme of new windows and repairs to the roof at the late 1940s estate created by Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990), the celebrated modernist architect who designed London Zoo’s penguin pool. At the same time the 129 council tenants, who make up the majority on the estate, get the work done free.
Mr Murphy, an ex-champion amateur boxer, who lives at Sadler House, said: “Where am I going to find that kind of money at my age? I just can’t pay it. They will just have to take me to prison. At least I’ll have a roof over my head.”
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