I always thought that “a public house” meant “a pub” aka tavern in American English.
Yes of course but a “council house” is essentially a free property from the local authority AKA public housing.
That’s the reason it’s a story because in her area the property is worth around 700k and she is a traitor/jihadi bride.
Then you have her limb a well and you can see the taxpayer is picking up quite a bill here!