Outraged protestors called for Waltham Forest Council’s leader to resign in December over a decision to take down a flag outside the town hall.

Around one hundred Turkish Cypriots gathered, waving flags and chanting “Grace Williams out!” during the full council meeting.

Protestors were upset by the council’s decision to take their flag down and apologise “for the offence caused”, hours after it had been raised at the square on November 15.

The council has overseen the raising of flags from various communities and countries in recent years, including the disputed Tibetan flag and the LGBTQ rainbow.

Speaking in the council chamber, Turkish Cypriot Community Association member Nafiya Horozoglu told councillors her community felt “relegated to second and third class citizens”.

Izabela Kickosicka, 36. Image: Izabela Kickosicka/LDRS

Izabela Kickosicka, 36. Image: Izabela Kickosicka/LDRS

A Walthamstow family-of-four were forced to sleep in a car after they were evicted by Waltham Forest Council for refusing to move 140 miles away.

Izabela Kickosecka, 36, and her three young children were evicted from their temporary accommodation after refusing the council’s offer of a home in Derby.

Within thirty minutes, she says the locks were changed at the Bexley flat the council had housed her in since she first became homeless in 2018.

Izabela says she and her children slept in a friend’s car that night, on November 16, before a mother at her children’s school invited them to stay.

Alexis Morris (left) and Marvin Ward (right) have been convicted (photo Met Police

Alexis Morris (left) and Marvin Ward (right) have been convicted (photo Met Police

And two teenagers were convicted of the manslaughter and robbery of an 18-year-old man who was fatally stabbed outside his home in Walthamstow.

Marvin Ward and Alexis Morris had agreed to meet Hussain Chaudhry on March 17 at his home address in Lea Bridge Road to buy a designer jacket that he had advertised for sale on social media.

Hussain Chaudhry (photo Met Police)

Hussain Chaudhry (photo Met Police)

After initially appearing willing to pay for the jacket, Ward and Morris then got out knives and threatened Hussain, before a fight in which Hussain suffered a fatal stab injury to his neck, and his mother and brother were also injured.