The woman had made a complaint under theIn evidence at the WRC hearing, the tenant recalled that on February 12th 2018, the landlord’s son, ‘Mr A’ blocked her car in a car park where she had parked to take her children to a playground and started yelling at her.
She had, she said, a very cordial relationship with ‘Mr A’ for the first six to seven months of her tenancy but everything changed after her application for rent supplement to the landlord. The tenant stated that after she received the notice to quit the property, she and her family were subjected to intimidating and hostile treatment from the landlord’s son, who was the point of contact.
Ms Duffy found that the offensive names the mother was called referred to her colour and therefore constituted harassment on the ground of race.