Nazirali Tejani, 70, bought the plush apartment in upmarket Fitzroy Place - the capital s first new garden square in over a century - off-plan in 2012, shelling out £2.6m for the flat near Oxford Street.
Nazirali Tejani is suing for £1m over a noise - which has been likened to bubble wrap popping - in his luxury flat in Fitzroy Place, central London, which he says make it impossible to sleep.
Wed 9 Jun 2021 05.00 EDT
On a damp Tuesday lunchtime at the north end of Regent Street, George is working his beat as one of one of Londonâs Big Issue sellers. I have not come to interview him, but his experience is so relevant to what I will be talking about for the next two hours that I feel duty-bound to ask him about his life, and how things have been in the past 15 months.
When he is not in the centre of the city, he tells me, he lives in a hostel for homeless people near Canary Wharf, five or six miles to the east. âLockdown was hard,â he says, ââcos I couldnât sell the magazine, and I needed to pay rent to the hostel. And the isolation was really difficult: a little room, and I had to pretty much stay in there, and only go out for, like, an hour a day. I went for weeks on end not speaking to anyone.â Does he have family? âNo, no. Not in London. My parents are dead; my brother and sister are abroad. One in Canada, one in Australia. So i