The stinking that shocked council staff
until 2012 after causing chaos on the estate, including threatening a six-year-old girl with a screwdriver.
His other son, Ross, 18, was jailed for two years and eight months in April this year after having sex with a 13-year-old girl and leaving her pregnant.
Neighbours told of their delight after West Lancs council seized the house and evicted the family.
One said: “The family are well-known around here and there have been a lot of issues over the years. It’s about time action was taken.”
One resident told how the home was “immaculate” until David Fyles’ mother died. They said: “His mum used to live there and she kept it immaculate. She was lovely. She passed away a few years ago and would turn in her grave if she knew what had happened to the house.
“He had a dog and he never walked it. I don’t know who ever fed the dog. The front garden was a mess, the front windows were a state and he never put the bins out.
The Fyles saw a three-month closure notice imposed on the house by the courts in 2011 after 56 incidents of crime and anti-social behaviour were reported to police that year.
Local residents had claimed that there had been problems at the house for almost a decade, with one neighbour admitting: “We have been through eight years of hell.”
Unsurprisingly, they cheered when police entered the property and nailed a closure notice to the door.
Kim Norris told the Ormskirk Advertiser at the time how one of Mr Fyles’ sons had shone a laser pen through her window at her new-born baby.
She added: “My children have been threatened with a chainsaw, I have had metal spikes and screwdrivers chucked into my garden and have had things thrown at my dogs.”
Another neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said: “My two children had things thrown at them and were shot at with water guns and then there was all the swearing and foul language. “I am so glad it is all over.”
But residents’ relief was short-lived and after the threemonth eviction, the Fyles family returned to the house.
The council officer said he tried to contact Mr Fyles a number of times about the house. When Mr Fyles didn’t respond to letters or telephone messages the council was left with no choice but to start proceedings to take possession of the property.
It is expected that it will cost the council thousands of pounds to restore the house.
Mr Fyles was not at the hearing and so, in his absence, Liverpool County Court awarded possession of the property to the council.
A money order to pay back rent arrears of £938.64 was also granted against Mr Fyles, together with the local authority’s costs of bringing the claim.
Councillor Kevin Wright, portfolio holder for Community Safety, said: “Mr Fyles has put his health at risk by using his home in this appalling manner. This case shows that the council will take action against tenants who do not keep to their tenancy agreement and this could result in them losing their home.”
Mr Fyles was formally evicted on Wednesday, September 14. He was not present when the council repossessed the property.