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A landlord has been filmed telling a desperate family that they will be 'evicted' after they complained about the shocking state of their home.

Living in 'uninhabitable conditions', the tenant confronts Mesut Ahmed on his doorstep in a bid to get him to fix a collapsed ceiling.

But Ahmed reacts angrily to the 'invasion' and slams the door in the family's face - along with campaigners from the local housing union.

He has insisted he is sorting the problems out

Ahmed has been given until this week to sort the problem in the roof, which sees water drip almost continuously through the damp and mouldy home in Oxford Place, Bristol, which he rents out to Manal Elamin and her four children.

They have lived in fear of the weather forecast since they moved in six years ago.

The house is currently the subject of an improvement order, with Ahmed given two different dates to fix long-standing problems which the Elamin family say is putting their safety and health at risk.

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A deadline to fix a leak in the bathroom, which sees water drip onto a combi boiler and kitchen appliances, passed last week, and Ahmed said the work had been done.

Ahmed has until the end of this week to fix the leaking roof, which the tenants say leads to water pouring down the stairs in heavy rain.

A roofer did carry out work ontwo weeks ago, but last week another rainy day dashed the family’s hopes that the problem had been sorted.

Acorn - Bristol's tenants' union - said the problems faced by the family highlighted the issues for tens of thousands of people in rented accommodation in the depths of Bristol’s housing crisis – where people fear complaining about issues to landlords reluctant to make proper repairs will mean they are then evicted for speaking out.

The Elamin family said they have been asking for the roof to be fixed for ‘at least five years’.

“Every time we ask him to sort something out, he just says ‘ok, no problem’, but it never gets done,” Raed Elamin, 20, told the Bristol Post .

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“When it rains, it just pours through the ceiling, down onto the stairs. Everything gets wet and it’s a bit dangerous. If it starts raining and I’m out, I dread coming back home – it shouldn’t be like that, you should want to get indoors when it rains,” he added.

Raed’s middle of three sisters Dalal, 15, has Crohn’s Disease and is in and out of hospital.

“The hospital tell us we have to keep things clean and hygienic at home, but it’s really difficult when there’s water everywhere and everything is so mouldy and damp,” he said.

In the top bedroom of the three-storey home, large square patches of black mould have formed where roof joists draw in water from the leaky roof. In a back bedroom, a mouldy wall had previously been patched up with wooden boards.

The floor of the turn of the stairs appeared full of water when the Bristol Post visited the family, and videos taken by them during rainy weather show water pouring through the stairwells.

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“I’m scared here, scared for our health, scared that the ceiling will collapse,” said mum Manal.

“No one should have to live like this,” she added. “A man came to fix the roof last week, but whatever he did, didn’t work. It was no surprise.”

Raed said he and his mum have been looking for alternative accommodation on a daily basis for years, but it is hard to come by.

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"We look all the time," said the 20-year-old. "We'll be passing somewhere that's new to let, and be straight onto them. But so many other people are too. And around here the rent is going up so there is simply nowhere else to go.

"We are on the council housing waiting list, but even with my sister's health condition there's always like 80 people ahead of us bidding for every house.

"We would move out tomorrow if we had somewhere to move to," he added.

Manal and Raed went with Acorn to present a letter to Mr Ahmed asking for an agreement that no rent be charged for two months in 'recognition of the danger and distress that he had caused the family'.

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Ahmed reacted angrily to the doorstepping, and told the family they would be evicted.

“If you don’t like it there, move,” he told them. “I will serve you an eviction notice, you will have two months. I will get the work done and then you will be out anyway.”

Later, Mr Ahmed told the Bristol Post the experience of being doorstepped like that was an invasion of his privacy, and had left his wife and family very upset.

He said he had a licence as a landlord, and always acted in accordance with that. The home in Easton is within the Stapleton Road area for landlord licences in a scheme run by Bristol City Council.

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Mr Ahmed told the Bristol Post: “My wife is detrimentally disturbed with this action by these people – who are Acorn? It's an invasion of privacy, it is criminal.

“I have got a deadline to do the work I will stick to. They are not allowed to turn up on my doorstep like that. As a landlord, I have a licence from the council.

"I will get her and her family out – I will get a Section 22 eviction notice now. She’s been verbally abusive over the past few years,” he added.

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“I am a citizen of this country, a born and bred Bristolian, and she’s nothing but trouble.

“I’m dealing with the council on this, the bathroom is fixed and I had a man look at the roof and that will be done,” he added.

“I’m a peaceful man and I get things done. I couldn’t believe what took place at my house.

"But I will evict them, absolutely – the notice is final, and it’s my right to do that, it is my house and I own it, and they have two months’ notice whenever I like.”

So-called 'revenge evictions' are on the rise in Bristol, particularly in Easton where the condition of much of the terraced houses off Stapleton Road is poor.