This is the sorry and extraordinary tale of a Trinity Road, Tooting, flat - the scene of a recent suicide - shown to a mentally ill man by Wandle Housing Association. The flat apparently came with some unusual mod cons:

Wandle Housing Association had not bothered to move the rope or clean the property, the man’s mother has claimed.

Yeah, that would be the rope hanging from the rafters through a trap door. The man was severely traumatised by what surely can't go down as the best viewing in estate agency history. The Housing Association completely deny the rope was in any way connected to the previous occupant... but that it was there for "another purpose".

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