How my landlord has tried to murder my entire building. TWICE! New Feature Documentary from Fourman Films

How my landlord has tried to murder my entire building. TWICE! 

New Feature Documentary from Fourman Films.

Fourman Films prides itself on challenging power wherever it can with little or no funding. 

One of my proudest achievements was our feature documentary Viva Palestina which we had no idea until we woke up that we would be producing a documentary that day. 

Yesterday it yet again unexpectedly become clear that the gloves needed to come off again. 

I present to you our latest film 

How my landlord has tried to murder my entire building. TWICE! 

A visceral account (by me) of a communities attempts to survive their fire safety bereft landlords living in an unsafe cladded building.

Whilst the title remains tongue in cheek the subject matter of what Sanctuary Housing is doing whilst remedying out buildings fire safety issues and how they have gone about these works which has lead to placing residents in more and certainly unacceptable danger.

Social murder describes early, preventable deaths caused by unfair social, political, or economic systems. Friedrich Engels made up this term in 1845. Friedrich Engels wrote about this idea in his 1845 book, The Condition of the Working Class in England.

He said that when society forces people to live in bad and unsafe places where they die early, it is like murder.He argued that those in power know about the harm and do nothing to fix it.

People use this word today to talk about political choices like government cuts to public services. Recent books, such as Social Murder? Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK, use it to explain how poor health and falling life span connect to government rules.It is also used during public health crises or tragedies where safety rules were ignored.

Covid, Grenfell Hillsborough were all preventable tragedies that people foretold and predicted. Yet profit before people orchestrated the rule of the day. It's clear here that not all is ok and the number of mistakes which all lead to potential tragedy one must consider is it as Engels describes Murder? 

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Friday 10th July Dangerous Works and practices continue despite London Fire Brigade Intervention.

Monday 13th July 2026 - Resident action changes some contractor practices as Heat in building lower due to windows being opened.

Tuesday 14th July 2026 -  Reported Landlords to Police

Despite reassuring the London Fire Brigade Fire Safety Investigation that Combustables were no longer being stored in Riser and Electrical cupboards Sanctuary Housing and Weston Homes are still doing so.

London Fire Brigade called me at work to tell me they have been assured all matters have been put right and that when it comes to what Sanctuary and Weston Homes tells them they have to take this on face value.

Upon arrival home it became clear that what they told London Fire Brigade Investigation Team was not true. All Combustables had not been removed from the riser and electrical cupboards, the fire alarm had faults across seven zones as residents are still waiting to have their alarms fixed and door are still unsafe.

Metropolitan Police were notified in my email that Sanctuary and Weston Homes have mislead a London Forest Brigade Fire Safety investigation which is a serious Crime.

Fourman Films Fire Safety School 

101 -The Importance of legally required Fire Risk Assesments In avoiding Fire Danger.

Thursday 16th July 2026.

The Fire Sprinkler and Riser systems were switched back on. Having complained that I suspected these vital life saving systems have been turned off we had the first flooding in the building for six months. It's clear they had just switched the systems off and now they fear a fire safety inspection they have switched them back on. 

I explore the leak and discuss how the absence of the legally required risk assesment update has allowed the dangerous failures in safety. 

I also today questioned authorities that is so many basic mistakes can be made all at once and as each of those mistakes is leading to a potential catastrophic fire then at what point does a criminal investigation need to be made into the possibility that an insurance job was about to occur and they were in fact prepping for arson. 

Tuesday 21st July 1140 pm Fire Alarm Evacuation

Thursday  23 July 2026. Flooding in Lift Shaft causing lift breakdown & Landlord Continuing to Fly Tip combustible building materials Bin room creating fire risk. 

This episode shows how there has been more flooding which has flooded the lift and stopped it working as well as the fire alarm still in fault and now making permanent beeping sound. 

All whilst the landlord continues to fly tip wood In a dangerous building which has cladding issues despite giving assurances to the London Fire Brigade Safety Investigation unit that this practice had ceased.

Tonight approaching 10 pm I saw my elderly neighbour bedding down in the park unable to walk the stairs to her apartment on the 5th floor. 

Her partner was unable to get her up the stairs and she was going to sleep rough. I helped her back to the lift and risked it by prying doors open and taking to the 5th and prying them open again getting her home. 

I would say home safely however the building still does not feel safe. Waking watch have been installed and don't seem to know what they are doing and just sleep in the corridor on the 1st floor instead of moving about the building like they should. They have a high Vis jacket no ID and can't explain what their job is or why they have been placed in the building. 

We suspect it is because the fire sprinklers have been turned off again dure to flooding and the alarm is not Working. None the less waking watch are meant to be patrolling not static and asleep. 

This problem has repeated itself for a decade and our landlords still can't get a grip on it. 

Orana Lifts have the contract to maintain our loft and have been 'waiting for parts" for well over a year. We suspect the parts never arrive as they would prefer the income attending multiple call outs. Seems as though they also do not provide a good service. 

Millharbour Update Saturday 1st August 2026 Broken Lift Failing Fire alarm. 

No surprises with temperatures expected to peak at 35 degrees on Monday that the lift is back out of service and vulnerable residents are stuck in their flats. Fire alarm also still has six zones in fault so weeks after saying to London Fire Brigade the alarm is fully functional they have only fixed one zone. 

Monday 10th August 2026 a quick update as the bin room co UK LD be sorted simply by Sanctuary yet they let the problem persist by not even meeting basic self awareness standards.

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How My Landlord has tried to murder my Entire Building. Twice!

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Picket at Christies against the looting of Greek antiquities by Tansy E Hoskins

 Campaigners from Greece and London gathered at Christies today to protest against the sale of looted antiquities and against the cuts faced by the Greek Ministry of Culture. Austerity measures in Greece have undermined public services, the welfare state, and social cohesion. 

  Staff cuts at the Ministry of Culture have led to security being compromised at museums and archaeological sites across Greece, as a result illegal digging has increased and armed robberies have occurred. 

Greek archaeologists, Fotis Georgiadis stated: "There were objects being sold at Christies today that can only have come from the Aegean Islands and the Peleponese in Greece, so they probably are the result of illegal excavations. Antiquities will be stolen as long as there is a market for them, the market is the cause of illegal digging." 

 
 Paul Mackney, Vice Chair of Coalition of Resistance and former General Secretary of UCU stated: "It is obscene that the mega-rich are spending large sums of money on Greek artefacts for their private collections, whilst in Athens austerity measures have led to people queuing at soup lines and scavenging for food, and the troika (the IMF, the EU and the European Central Bank) is pressing Greece to sell off its treasures."

London's Burning

  London's Burning by Paul Hanes on Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 6:29pm · As published in Read Magazine Germany. 

  London is burning. People set it on fire. Shops are being looted and whole streets of residential homes are being raised to the ground. Thousands of the city’s poor and disaffected have kicked off in a spectacular and frightening way. 

  What the London riots lacked in the revolutionary direction of the Arab Spring, it made up for in the violence and chaos of the angry and alienated. The riots were on a large scale, dangerous; untargeted in those they attacked. Truly frightening. Unusually it all kicked off at the same time across London and as police reinforcements were being redirected to London cities from across Britain, its citizens began to trash and burn their streets.

  It began on Saturday 6th August after a vigil outside Tottenham police station for Mark Duggan, who was fatally shot by police. It led to a riot of over 200 youths, which built and continued the next day. By Tuesday London was ablaze and wide spread looting had caused over a hundred million pounds worth of damage and violence had fatally wounded five people. Most of the media look to the shooting of Mark Duggan for the reason that widespread criminality and anarchy broke out. The media are also quick to accuse people they interview of supporting the riots, should they try and examine the reasons behind the outbreak of an alarming amount of violence on mass. 

  For the truth of it all, Mark Duggan and London may have to wait for the details of the investigations which the Independent Police Complaints Commission will no doubt carry out. I do not wish to pre-empt the outcome of that investigation. However whilst rioters claim they are reacting to Duggan’s shooting, Mark lived within a London youth culture where young people turn on each other over something as simple as where they live or the colours they wear. In fact the majority of victims of crime in London are under 18.

 In fact there have been 333 deaths in police custody in the period between 1998 and 2011 and not one conviction of a police officer in this time. Rarely are there such wide spread disturbances following an incident like this even when police malpractice is evident. 

So why now?

  

  In the words of Labour Member of Parliament John McDonnell, the parliamentary debate he witnessed over the riots demonstrated ‘absolute hypocrisy’. The politicians were sharpening their claws for their people by authorising water cannon and baton rounds to be used on civilians. Water cannon has never been used on the UK mainland. 

  Our House of Commons representatives were promising tougher sentences and criticising the uncontrolled greed of the rioters. This less than a year after widespread looting of the Treasury by MPs during the expenses scandal. Millions had to be paid back after MPs were caught red handed ripping off the taxpayer. 

   One MP who claimed for eight laptops was actually allowed to keep the money as a legitimate personal claim. Other MPs were falsifying expenses and claiming for repairs and refurbishments on second homes they didn’t even live in. Overnight accommodation costs were also claimed by London MPs who could get a £10 cab fare home, as well as adult movie rental. 

  John McDonnell goes on to say that: ‘nothing I say condones or excuses violence but if we are to have a proper debate about what happened there needs to be some kind of home truths spoken in the House of Commons…One of the basic home truths is that for three decades now the major political parties in power have allowed to be created a society of looters at every level of society.’ 

  He also asserts: ‘today in parliament I sat with the MPs who looted their expenses, there were other MPs there including the Prime Minister David Cameron who had to pay back millions for dishonest claims for mythical costs. Some ministers have gone to jail, some are now consultants and directors for companies who they awarded contracts to whilst they were in office.

  That’s the moral example given by consecutive governments for the last three decades. Then you come to the real looters. They didn’t wear hoodies; they didn’t smash up the streets. They went into the City of London, pressed a few computer buttons, wasted our money and destroyed a whole economy which put two and a half million people on the dole as a result. 

  The MPs sat there today talking about restoring a sense of moral place in society: MPs who have links to companies who do not pay their taxes. They avoid and evade taxes to the tune of £150 billion a year’. Journalists have been caught illegally hacking peoples’ phones. The head of the News Corporation Rebecca Brooks lives next door to the Prime Minister, whom he considers a friend. It is clear to many in the public that the hacking was so widespread that even Rupert Murdoch himself must have known about this vile practice.

  Nonetheless, they are yet to be questioned by the police about this. The same police who took bribes from journalists for information, including the mobile number of missing school girl Milly Dowler, whose phone they subsequently hacked into and deleted texts. Milly Dowler’s parents believed it was their daughter who was utilising her mobile during this time and therefore, that she was still alive. She had been murdered. 

  Even dead soldiers’ families had their phones hacked - such was the morbid immorality of the Murdoch News Corporation (and their uncontrolled greed). So what has happened is that the rioters have come along this week and said to the ruling elite and the rich, ‘we have the same morals as you: we will take and grab what we can, we do not care about the consequences and if we can get away with it then good’. 

  It is a cri de coeur from the generation who – largely unwittingly – buy into Thatcherite consumerist ideologies which denote and delimit an individual’s self worth through their consumption. The question is how long can the elite rule with water cannon and bullets before it addresses societal inequalities, support those it should and tax those who can pay. 

  Was it the shooting of Mark Duggan or the fact that the poor and dispossessed are now receiving cuts to their benefits which will force them to move out of London. London, where they had once worked, lived and grown up. Is it that they can see the rich filling their pockets, offending without consequence and driving the poor out of London with redundancies, repossessions and lack of adequate support from the state to deal with this?

  Is it a mere coincidence that the housing benefit cut letters are arriving en masse in the weeks preceding the violent outbreaks? If society does not grasp this and hear these people then the war on our streets will sadly continue. What the rank and file rioters did is inexcusable criminality, however the looters and rioters in government and the banks need also to take responsibility for their crimes and be tried in the same courts. 

  Whether or not the media who are part of the ruling elite allow this to be debated or are even able to discuss this honestly remains to be seen.

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