Family of tenant who killed himself over noise accuse landlord of ‘gross failings’

Exclusive: Relatives reveal landlord Clarion continued to demand rent four months after Mark Pearce’s death

The family of a vulnerable man who killed himself after the UK’s largest social housing landlord, Clarion, failed to address neighbour noise have accused it of “gross failings” and said his death has left them heartbroken.

The sister and brother-in-law of Mark Pearce, 56, who took his life after his noise complaints were dismissed as “whining” by the £1bn-a-year housing firm, accused Clarion of treating him as “a number … just someone who the rent was being paid for”.