A social housing tenant is suing his landlord for £1m in damages, alleging that a housing officer illegally sublet his home when he was stranded abroad at the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020.
Filippe Scalora’s case against Clarion, the UK’s largest housing association, will allege that when he returned to the flat he discovered a stranger had been sleeping in his bed and using his towels, cutlery, crockery and computer.
The case over the one-bedroom property in Chelsea, SW1, goes to trial at the High Court in London today.
