Hamza wife faces eviction from £600k council home
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/
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12th October 2006
The wife of the jailed Islamic preacher Abu Hamza was under investigation
today over her right to live in a £600,000 house at the taxpayer's expense.
The Evening Standard, the Daily Mail's sister paper, has learned that she
was given the five-bedroom council house next to a Cabinet minister after
she claimed she was assaulted by the hook-handed cleric.
She was rehoused by her local authority in 1989 but then went on to have
five more children with the man she had originally claimed had been abusing
her. The revelation will raise serious questions over whether Hamza's wife
and children have the right to stay in the house in Aldbourne Road,
Shepherd's Bush.
Najat Chaffe, Hamza's Moroccan-born second wife, now faces eviction from her
home after Hammersmith & Fulham Council announced an investigation into her
right to be there.
The inquiry follows the discovery - revealed in yesterday's Evening
Standard - that Hamza secretly bought a £220,000 house in Greenford in west
London as a buy-to-let investment while in prison. The council also wants to
know whether Ms Chaffe has received any of the rental income from the house
in Hicks Avenue in Greenford. She and her children receive a reported £680 a
week in state handouts.
A court order was granted in the summer putting a freeze on the sale of the
four-bedroom semi. Hamza, jailed for seven years for incitement to murder
and other race hate crimes, was awarded up to £250,000 legal aid.
Ms Chaffe is one of three named people in the court order - obtained by the
Legal Services Commission - who are "restrained from dealing with the
property".
Cllr Adronie Alford, the borough's cabinet member for housing, said today:
"We take any allegations of fraud extremely seriously. If there is evidence
that any tenant has defrauded the council, we will take whatever action is
needed."
Ms Chaffe moved into the present family home, next door to Work and Pensions
Secretary John Hutton, in Shepherd's Bush in 1995.
Hamza, meanwhile, moved into his own council flat in Hammersmith in 1999 in
Adie Road, which he bought under right-to-buy for £100,000, selling it on in
2004 for £228,000. He used the profits from that sale to buy the house in
Greenford in cash just a month later while on remand in Belmarsh.
Neither property deal should have been allowed to go through because Hamza's
assets were supposed to have been frozen by the Treasury under
anti-terrorism sanctions. But all the time Ms Chaffe has supposedly been
separated from Hamza, there are suspicions the couple remain very close.
Neighbours in Aldbourne Road today said the preacher was ever-present until
his arrest in 2004 and that the Hamzas lived as "one big happy family".
One woman, too afraid to give her name, said: "It looked like they had a lot
of fun over there with all the people coming and going all the time. We
never saw any evidence of domestic abuse, but then she hardly left the
house.
"He would mostly be coming out of the house with his teenage sons holding
his mobile phone for him. They'd come and go in the car as a family."
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