Investigation

Students association accommodation officer Geoff Bertram told Salient that he had investigated the case when the Truth article first appeared.

At the time the Sunday News article was written, students were living in the flat.

However, when the tenants vacated the flat, the composition of the flat-members had altered, and none of them was attending university.

Mr. Bertram said that one of the tenants was. however, still technically a student in that he had paid his students association fee for that year.

A Salient team which investigated the present state of the property found it is again tenanted. The property, which is approached through a slushy, filthy path and steps lined with dead rats, has been partly repaired. Some of the weather-boarding has been replaced, although much is still riddled with dry-rot.

In some places, a person of usual strength could push his fist right through the wall, and plastic film replaces window-glass.

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