The decision said "the most serious issue" was dampness, with black mould found in bedrooms. A Rotorua trust represented by Stephen Bhana and his sister Jasu Bhana has lost a long-running legal battle after it was ordered to do remediation works and pay more than $16,000 in damages and costs for having tenants in unsafe living conditions. Court documents supplied to the Rotorua Daily Post reveal tenants in three flats were living with cockroaches that affected electrical appliances. The flats also had rodents, faulty appliances and electrical fittings, a cracked toilet bowl causing wastewater to overflow, missing drawers, cupboards and doors, and black mould and dampness so severe it forced families out of bedrooms to sleep huddled in lounges.

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