WHO IS BARBARA ROWE?
IN THE 80s/90s BARBARA ROWE WAS EMPLOYED BY BRENT(BENT)COUNCIL AS A MANAGER IN THE RENT ACCOUNT DEPARTMENT. IT HERE THAT SHE ESTABLISHED HERSELF TO BE A TOTAL BITCH BY WRITING TO A 69 YEAR OLD TENANT TREATENING TO EVICT HIM. BARBARA ROWE DID THIS FOR NEAR ON FIVE YEARS WITH OUT ONCE BOTHERING TO CHECK ON THIS ELDERLY TENANT. BELOW IS THE FULL STORY
Friday, 18 March 1994
A PENSIONER lay dead in his flat for more than four years as a council continued to send him court summonses over rent arrears, an inquest was told yesterday.
All the summonses were sent by post to John Sheppard, 69, a retired security officer, at his one-bedroom flat on the Stonebridge Park Estate at Harlesden, north-west London. His death went undiscovered until last December, when workmen broke in to investigate a water leak.
He was sent a vast amount of mail over the years, including summonses and notices of a possession order and rent arrears.
Barbara Rowe, manager of Brent council's tenancy services, said the council had since changed its policy and included with its summonses a personal contact through the social services.
Recording an open verdict, the Hornsey coroner Dr William Dolman said: 'This is the most extraordinary case that has come to the notice of any court I've been involved in.'
He added: 'One has to say that the facts relating to this case demonstrate the most extraordinary complacent approach to this matter by the London Borough of Brent . . . One hopes that no such event will ever take place again.'
Barbara Rowe wrote to Mr Sheppard for 4 years, never once in that time did she receive a reply, nor did she make any other attempt to contact this elderly person. Meanwhile Mr Sheppards body lay decomposing.
AS YOU HAVE READ THE CORONER DECRIBED THE ACTIONS OR SHOULD THAT BE LACK OF ACTION BY BRENT(BENT)COUNCIL AS THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY CONPLACENT APPROACH TO THIS MATTER!
AS WE ALL KNOW THE BUCK STOPS WITH THE MANAGER WHO HAPPENS TO BE BARBARA ROWE.
WHY BARBARA ROWE WAS NOT SACKED IS A QUESTION YOU MAY WELL ASK?
YOU HAVE TO ALSO ASK WHAT SORT OF PERSON WOULD WRITE TO AN ELDERLY TENANT AND THREATEN THEM AND NOT BE AWARE THAT THIS WAS A ELDERLY PERSON WHO HAS NOT REPONDED TO SAID LETTERS!
TO NOT GET A RESPONCE FOR NEAR ON FIVE YEARS TO SAID THREATENING LETTERS OF EVICTION IS BEYOND BELIEF GIVEN THE FACT THAT BARBARA ROWE WOULD HAVE HAD THIS ELDERLY TENANTS DETAIL ON RECORD!
SO AGAIN THE QUESTION HAS TO BE ASKED WHY WAS SHE NOT SACKED? WHY?