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Family’s eviction from estate is a legal ‘first’
TWO “neighbours from hell” have been evicted from their Pimlico flat after more than 500 complaints about their behaviour.
A mother and her son menaced residents on Churchill Gardens estate with drug taking, loud music, spitting and urinating outside other people’s flats.
Residents reported being afraid to walk in the hallways of the estate such was the intimidation from the pair.
The eviction was a joint action by Westminster City Council and the police and is the first such “closure order” to be used against a family in the borough.
Police say they had “no choice” than to evict them.
Sergeant Alan Sweetman from Churchill Gardens Safer Neighbourhoods Team, said: “This was a last course of action for us, we had no choice but to use this new legislation to protect the quality of life for other residents in the area.
We had received numerous complaints about anti-social behaviour in and around the flat and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the residents who helped us by coming forward with information which we could use
to support the closure order.”
In the past 12 months, the city council has obtained 131 anti-social behaviour orders.
The council’s youth offending team has arranged for the boy to go to a hostel where he will be assessed. |
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