PHOTOS have emerged of one of the council houses turned down by a migrant family-of-ten because it was too small - and "didn't even have a dining room".

Cameroon-born Arnold Mballe Sube, 33, came to Britain with wife Jeanne and their seven children four years ago because the NHS agreed to fund a £27,000 degree for him.

6 Arnold Mballe Sube (far right) and wife Jeanne, pictured with their baby, with their children at their home in Luton after turning down a five-bed property Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

They were offered this four-bedroom house in Chertsey Close, Luton but also turned it down Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

The family, since boosted by the arrival of a three-month-old daughter, now live in a four-bed house, kitted out with big flatscreen tellies, games devices and a Sky HD box.

But Arnold wants out of “the worst place they have ever lived.”

He is furious at being offered the five-bedroom property.

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He said: “There wasn’t space for the things of ten people. It didn’t even have a dining room.”

Arnold, who uses one bedroom as a gym/office, said: “Me and my family have been neglected.

"We are living in a three-bedroom house and there’s not enough room for us.

“It’s so cramped and the conditions are terrible. My children are starting school and we can’t stay here any longer.

“The council is trying to make things hard for us.

"My wife is a full-time mother and I am a student. They’re just making excuses.

6 The house where Arnold Mballe Sube and wife Jeanne - who claim they are being neglected - live with their children Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

"We need a five or six-bedroom house with double rooms to comfortably fit our family.”

Arnold moved to France at 18 and started a family with Jeanne, who is also from Cameroon.

He wanted to study psychiatric nursing but failed to find a suitable course so moved to Britain with their seven children.

The NHS funded the annual £9,000 cost of his three-year degree at the University of Bedfordshire while they were housed in a five-bed council property in Luton.

6 The family's living room has a wide screen television

6 Mballe Sube says it is 'the worst place they have ever lived'

They were evicted when the landlord decided to sell. So the council booked them into two rooms at the town’s £160-per-night Hampton by Hilton hotel for four months at a cost of £38,400.

Arnold said: “We couldn’t cook. Children were eating on the carpet. We were ordering room service, chicken and chips, Chinese food. We had to order it twice per day for all the kids and all the family.

“The council said I had to pay a bill for living in the hotel. That was very traumatising because we didn’t ask for them to put us there.”

The couple were then moved into a four-bed house in Bletchley, Bucks, but complained because it is too small, especially with the arrival of Mary, now three months.

6 The children also have a TV and Xbox in their bedroom

Arnold and Jeanne, 33, both have smartphones, a laptop, with a 60in flatscreen TV and Sky HD box in their front room, plus a 52in telly in their bedroom.

Their children — Mejane, 16, Fabian, 13, Analia, 13, Prosper, ten, Dylan, nine, six-year-old twins Sharon and Stacy, and baby Mary — also have a TV and an Xbox with dozens of games.

The family have received annual hand-outs estimated at £44,000 since their arrival.

It is made up of housing and child benefits, as well as child tax credits and Arnold’s NHS course payments.

Yet unhappy Arnold, who was offered a five-bed property last month, said: “We are entitled to six bedrooms. I believe that the council has to support me in order for me to become a positive person and contribute to the tax system.”

6 The Cameroon-born student uses one room as a gym/study

A neighbour said last night: “They’ve got some cheek. I’d bite the council’s hand off if they offered me a five-bed house. They’re too fussy and they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it.”

Another said: “I think it’s a disgrace. There are people out on the streets in the city centre and ex- soldiers with nowhere to live. It is a struggle but don’t go on and moan about it.”

Councillor Tom Shaw, responsible for housing at Luton Borough Council, said: “We have managed to find them a large four-bed house and then a five-bed which they turned down.

“We can’t be any more sympathetic. We can’t just magic property that people want out of thin air.”

A spokesperson for the council said: “Housing stock in Luton is under constant pressure.

“Despite difficulties we managed to find Mr and Mrs Sube affordable housing that is large enough to house them and their eight children.

“After a generous offer on our part, we have done our bit and if housing is offered and declined without, what we judge, good reason, then we will offer the property to another family.”

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