00:00In 2018, the council was granted an injunction, barring Mr Hajimina from carrying out unauthorised works on his property after
00:09he claimed that the construction was a caravan.
00:12The council returned to the High Court last year, asking a judge to find that Trevor Hajimina had committed contempt
00:20of court by undertaking further work at the property, in breach of this injunction.
00:27Mr Justice Cotter found in March that two allegations of contempt of court against Mr Hajimina were proven, but delayed
00:36sentencing after Hajimina suggested that he was willing to take down at the structure.
00:41However, at a hearing on Thursday, which Mr Hajimina did not attend, the same judge sentenced him to six months
00:49in prison, after the council claimed he had resumed building works.
00:54In 2018, he was ordered to cease all work at the site and to remove a timber frame structure and
01:02four courses of brickwork, which he had built on top of the single-storey extension.
01:08He removed the structure and complied with the order for several years, but began constructing a large timber-framed structure
01:18last year.
01:19According to the judge, Mr Hajimina-Laser took this down, but then began to construct a substantial brick structure in
01:27its place.
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