A gas explosion which blew the roof off a house inadvertently exposed a scam by a Nigerian couple who fraudulently claimed £80,000 in benefits and fuelled the money back home to set up a string of businesses
Mini Cab driver Nura Kamara,34,and careworker Hadiza Mohammed ,31,had their cover quite literally blown when they applied for temporary accomodation following the blast in September last year
The explosion,started by another tenant who lived in the converted three-storey Victorian property in South Norwood,London,left five families homeless after the flats were declared unsafe
kamara and Mohammed approached Croydon council's homeless unit to arrange temporary accomodation but were caught out when checks showed that housing and council tax benefit was paid to a couple at their address with different names
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