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Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:08 PM on 11th January 2012
A teenager whose mother was threatened with eviction from her council home when he was caught looting during the London riots last August was today jailed for 11 months.
Committed Christian Daniel Sartain-Clarke, 18, broke into a Currys store in Clapham Junction, London, on August 8 last year as chaos took hold in the capital.
He was discovered by police in the shop’s downstairs stockroom two hours after it was broken into by others.
Evicted? Daniel Sartain-Clarke, pictured with his girlfriend, admitted burglary in court today but denied an allegation of assault with intent to resist arrest
Daniel admitted burglary and because of his actions his mother Maite De La Calva was threatened with eviction from the home she shares with her son and eight-year-old daughter.
Today, as Wandsworth Council said it would interview Ms De La Calva about why she should be allowed to remain in the property, her son, who suffers from depression, was jailed at Inner London Crown Court.
In October last year Daniel pleaded guilty
to raiding the Currys at a trial at Inner London Crown court.
Interview: Maite De La Calva, Daniel’s mother, will be pressed as to why she should be allowed to stay at her Wandsworth flat
But he denied a charge of assault with intent to resist arrest alongside two other defendants, Simon and Timothy Rodney.
Sartain Clarke’s case hit the headlines after his mother Maite de la Calva was told by Wandsworth Council the family would be turfed out of their £225,000 taxpayer-subsidised home if he is convicted.
Ms de la Calva is believed to have been the first council tenant in the country to be served with such a notice.
Eviction: Kennworth House, Battersea where Daniel’s family reside
Under
housing rules Mrs de la Calva and her family can be forced from their
two-bedroom flat in Battersea, if anyone living there is involved in
crime.
The volunteer
charity worker has previously slammed the council’s moves though she
described the riots as ‘madness and savagery’.
She said the news had left her ‘very upset’ and she did not know where she and her eight-year-old daughter would go.
Her
son has now moved to a bail address in Bath, who was arrested along
with his 18-year-old girlfriend Jo-Neil Starkie after more than 100
looters went on the rampage.
Starkie was spared jail last month after she admitted looting some mobile phone speakers.
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“The volunteer charity worker”??? What 3 – 10 hours a week? So, no need to actually get a job and pay for a home yourself then?
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Do it. The law abiding have had enough.
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“£225,000 taxpayer-subsidised home” Why is it subsidised, she seems to be getting plenty to eat.
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nearly a quarter of a million for their flat? What has it got? Gold Taps?
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Single mother living in a £225 000 flat all on the back of the taxpayer. Kick them out and set an example ot other parasites like them.
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Depression, blah blah, didn’t mean to get caught, oops meant do the crime, volunteer charity worker (lives off the state, no income), blah blah, didn’t think the housing rules would apply to us, blah blah……………Get a grip Britain, you’re being ripped off by all and sundry. When is someone going to grow a pair and enforce a modicum of decency and respect, As for the DM, one day the rioters are all villians, today you wants us to feel sorry for them???
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Another excessive sentence on a boy with no previous convictions. Reading on this case he has health issues as well. This is barbaric. The establishment should be censured for taking the line of retaliation and retribution over justice. More contemptable are the disgraceful petty bureacrats who are using these events as a pretext to making an innocent woman and her child homeless. This country should hang its head in shame at the unjust wasteland it has become.
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“Committed Christian Daniel Sartain-Clarke…”, what happened to “Thou shalt not steal”?
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I see the sense in the rule, because of the problem families that abuse the system and cause so much trouble and expense. But this lady doesn’t seem to fit that description. Her son is a grown man who made his choices and is suffering the consequences for them. There is also an eight year-old little girl involved who hasn’t done anything to anyone. Does she deserve to lose her home? I say let them stay.
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