A £52,000-a-year housing chief was sacked last night after an investigation by The Times found that she had shifted elderly people from their sheltered homes and moved into one with her boyfriend at a rent of £47 a week.
When confronted on the doorstep of her home, with its mobility handrail still intact, Kristine Reeves, 37, complained that the old person's cottage she had taken was too small for a double bed and was “really very cold. You couldn't swing a cat in it”.
Pensioners complained that they missed their bungalows and were lonely after being moved to other homes on the outskirts of Norwich.
City council officials decided that they should take the decommissioned sheltered housing for themselves without ever informing councillors and the Labour authority accused Ms Reeves of bringing it into “severe disrepute”. Ms Reeves, who bought a £190,000 house in Norwich with a different partner four years ago, was head of neighbourhood and strategic housing, and co-author of a report which recommended destroying the 25 elderly people's homes at Greyhound Opening in the city centre and replacing them with 200 flats and houses.
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