Homes taken, now 'trapped' WestConnex residents must pay to stay

By Sean Nicholls
Updated July 16 2016 - 10:08am, first published 12:15am
Pauline Lockie's house has been compulsorily acquired to make way for WestConnex. Photo: Mark Jesser
Pauline Lockie's house has been compulsorily acquired to make way for WestConnex. Photo: Mark Jesser
Richard Capuano must pay rent to the RMS while living in the home he bought 18 years ago. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Richard Capuano must pay rent to the RMS while living in the home he bought 18 years ago. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Richard Capuano and Pauline Lockie didn't know each other before Australia's largest road project, the $16.8 billion WestConnex, threw them together for the worst of reasons.

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