Cafe owner

PHOTO: Chris Bull was last week given only 24 hours to pay $13,000 in owed rent for his Goodbye Horses café in Summer Hill in Sydney’s inner-west

  • Footage showed locksmith locking owner out of his inner-west Sydney café
  • Came only a day after his landlord demand he pay $13,000 in rental arrears 
  • Owner Chris Bull said he thought he would be protected by the eviction ban
  • ‘But it doesn’t seem to be anything that anybody can enforce,’ Mr Bull said 

Confronting footage has captured the moment a Sydney café owner was locked out of his own business after he was unable to pay rent during the city’s lockdown.

Chris Bull was last week given only 24 hours to pay $13,000 in owed rent for his Goodbye Horses café in Summer Hill in Sydney’s inner-west.

Video taken by his staff the next day showed a locksmith changing the locks despite Mr Bull’s plea for his landlord to wait until Covid-19 small business relief arrived from the NSW government.

Video taken by his staff the next day showed a locksmith changing the locks despite Mr Bull's plea for his landlord to wait until Covid-19 small business relief arrived from the NSW government
The business owner said he expected more 'wiggle room' from his landlord

Video taken by his staff the next day showed a locksmith changing the locks despite Mr Bull’s plea for his landlord to wait until Covid-19 small business relief arrived from the NSW government

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