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Heartbreaking scenes as homeless Somali woman returns to where a street bench she was staying in was removed by City Council in order to remove her off the street

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This is the woman outside TK Maxx tonight

 

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Until Wandsworth Council decided it was in their best interests to remove it

 

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The family used to live on the bench

 

 

Wandsworth Guardian:

 

Emergency services were called to the bench on Monday and the Somali woman was hospitalised after suffering from cold.

 

The next day the bench was removed when Wandsworth Council decided it was in the best interest of the family who had made the bench their home.

 

Then just after 3pm today the woman, thought to be in her 60s, returned to the bench to find it is no longer there.

 

Reporter Ellie Cambridge went to visit the woman tonight and offered her fruit and biscuits. However, the offer was rebuffed.

 

The woman is now huddled up on a chair, using an umbrella to shelter her from the rain.

 

She is wrapped up in blankets, alone, on the exact spot where the bench once stood.

 

Residents expressed their shock at the bench's removal, with many criticising it as a short-term solution to the family’s problems.

 

Wandsworth Guardian:

 

The mother and son centred their lives around the public bench outside TK Maxx, in Tooting High Street.

 

It is understood the woman's son is in hospital.

 

All the fruit and biscuits went to a homeless man who sits under the railway bridge in Balham.

 

Source: http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk

 

http://www.somaliaonline.com/heartbreaking-as-homeless-somali-woman-returns-where-a-street-bench-she-was-staying-in-was-removed-by-city-council-in-order-to-remove-her-off-the-street/

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