• ON Sunday I came across a person in a tent on New Oak Path, close to where Calvin Bungisa was brutally killed three years ago, a place noted for its drug dealers and dog faeces.

Not exactly the best of camping sites.

I asked the camper if he was in need of help and he said he was waiting to visit a relative and did not need help.

I was actually looking for a “customer” of the local food bank who had been evicted from his flat by Camden Council two days earlier and had disappeared before the food bank could get him help.

The camper was not that person.

On Monday I returned to the campsite and witnessed Veolia throwing his tent into a rubbish truck. I was told that the council had told them to do this.

The food bank has, apparently, had three cases of council evictions in almost the same number of weeks.

One of these was a refugee family of six from Syria who were “rehoused”, initially, in one room in a hostel miles away from their children’s schools.

The food bank is increasingly being approached by customers who have many other complex problems.

This council practice of eviction is making matters much worse for our most vulnerable residents.

At least the unknown camper had a roof over his head until the council stole it.

Why are council officers allowed to behave in this inhumane way, reminiscent of the 16th-century Elizabethan Poor Law?

What are councillors doing about this, or are they kept in the dark?

The individual problems are, of course, more complex than can be explained in a short letter, but eviction should be the last resort.

Perhaps a senior councillor could explain.

MICK FARRANT, NW5