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Tackling the troublemakers

Daniel Begley

A family in Stockbridge Village in Huyton has been ordered to leave their home within 28 days after local residents were terrorised in an appalling case of anti social behaviour.

Villages Housing Association were given a possession order by the courts following Police information and after numerous complaints were made by local residents against the BEGLEY family, from Round Hey in Stockbridge Village, Huyton. Despite being issued with an ASBO by Knowsley Council in November 2006, Daniel Begley, aged 17, had continued to behave in a threatening and intimidating manner.

Judge Fitzgerald said in summing up that over a period of two years, local people had endured ‘a horrendous catalogue of nuisance’, and that “some residents had good reason to be terrified”. He also described Daniel Begley as “an habitual criminal and vicious individual” with “no prospects of changing his behaviour.” In granting the possession order, the Judge stated that “enough is enough”.

Villages Housing Association, Knowsley Housing Trust and Merseyside Police Anti Social Behaviour Unit, who are working in partnership to tackle anti-social behaviour in the local community, see the decision by the courts to evict the family as a victory for the community. Knowsley Housing Trust is contracted by Villages Housing Association to assist them in carrying out tenancy enforcement action. This action demonstrates the powers that landlords now have to deal with those people involved in anti-social or criminal activities within their property or the locality.

Villages Housing Association is taking a firm stance on perpetrators of anti social and criminal behaviour. Vernon Jackson, Chief Executive of Village Housing Association, said “ We are determined to take whatever actions are necessary to ensure that people can enjoy their homes and communities. Working together with local residents, Knowsley Housing Trust and the Police, we are starting to have a real impact on improving local neighbourhoods. We hope that this particular case sends out a strong message to the community that anti-social behaviour will not be tolerated.”