The sports club at the heart of NCH scandal

Icon_article Published: June 02, 2011 21:03 by Cricket Leaks |

Tagged as: cricket local_communities nch nottingham_city_homes nottingham_post squatting tyron_browne west_indian_cavaliers
Neighbourhoods: arboretum nottingham

Today the Nottingham Post has claimed it has new evidence relating to the Nottingham City Homes scandal. The article suggests that members of a sports club whose name they refuse to reveal may have benefitted from preferential treatment in the allocation of houses. I'm not so coy as the Post and I'd suggest that the sports club in question is the West Indian Cavaliers Cricket Club whose Honorary Secretary is the disgraced former director of operations of NCH, Tyron Browne.

Comments are no longer allowed on the Post article, because they were being used to identify the sports club in question.

The comments on this article reveal some interesting business dealings of the cricket club, including providing an unspecified company 'services worth £15,500 which was determined on an arms length basis'!

The Post story also reminded me of this story about squatters in the Arboretum who inadvertently found themselves squatting in a dodgy NCH property frequented by professional cricketers. They ended up being chased out by cricket bat wielding men, aided and abetted by the local constabulary.

Lets hope the Post get it together enough to actually reveal what they are so far only hinting at. The local police seem to be so in bed with the corrupt clique at the centre of the scandal that they are refusing to investigate.

Comments

squat, just round the corner from the ASBO

Comment Published: June 02, 2011 22:36 by tash

Gosh, don't things go round slowly?
It was back in 2006 that some squatter activists in Radford, invited me round to a recently squatted address, where there had been some very strange goings on with the previous occupants getting some prf. treatment for the council housing dept.
To back up this preference, they came round to visit with bassball bats and the like.
Here are some of my piccys from the time.
Squatting and the Sept 2nd raid on Nottingham City Homes offices
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/09/350659.html

... and now the Nottingham Post have recently discovered some of this again: LEAKED housing records obtained by the Post and requests under the Freedom of Information Act have identified eight members of a sports club and their families who may have received preferential treatment in the allocation of council homes over two-and-a-half years... http://bit.ly/mwFdH2