A GRANDMOTHER is locked in a “nightmare” as she fears subsidence will cause her flat to topple over and kill someone.

Maureen Odulaja, of Sunray Court, Ricard Close, Hendon, says the walls of her second floor flat are plagued with cracks as big as craters – but housing association Genesis have done nothing about it.

The 70-year-old’s flat is on the first floor and the three-storey block began tipping over in 2007, but builders were drafted in to repair the problem.

But since then, cracks gradually began to appear in her walls and she wants action to be taken before it gets worse.

She said: “You could see daylight through the cracks, honestly they are so big that I’d bet even a blind man could see them. This has been such a nightmare.

“I’d bet my life on the fact that it’s going to topple over at some point and end up killing someone. It won’t be today or tomorrow, but I’m sure it will happen. They cannot leave it like this, it’s dangerous.

“They are unbelievable. I am not exaggerating, if anything I am underplaying it all. It’s diabolical and a disgrace. I am feeling very unsafe.”

Last week, the wall and bricks in her living room started crumbling when a plasterer sent by Genesis tried to fill the holes.

The retired receptionist now fears the “half-hearted” job will only exacerbate the problem and cause permanent, irreversible damage.

Genesis have not sent a surveyor or an engineer to assess the problem and meetings with plasterers constantly get cancelled.

Mrs Odulaja, a widow, moved into her house 24 years ago and has always been “very happy” there.

She added: “They can come and fill the holes all the want but in six months they will open again, but which point it will be a thousand times worse.

“They keep saying they’ll send someone but then they change the date – it is total incompetence.

“In my old age, I can’t have this continuous battle. Subsidence happens in life but that doesn’t make it okay. How are they getting away with this? I am so stressed.”

Bosses at Genesis apologised for the delay in sorting the problems out, adding they have previously completed maintenance there in March 2016.

They planned to monitor the situation since then, but the association admitted there had been a "breakdown in communication".

Media manager Kimberley Rowley said: "Genesis contractors attended and cut some holes in the plasterboard to reveal the level of work required.

"We needed to do this to ascertain what needed to be repaired behind the plasterboard before repairing the ‘face’ of the wall.

"We have a further appointment agreed for Friday to carry out work.

“We realise that this process has taken much longer than it should have done and we again apologise.

"We are conducting an internal review to establish where things went wrong and how we could have managed our customer’s expectations and communicated more effectively about the programme of works."