What a bunch of wasters!
Council which gave family from hell £130,000 home now tries to evict them
A COUNCIL which provoked fury by buying a £135,000 home for a notorious ‘family from hell’ is now spending thousands more trying to evict them. Perth and Kinross Council has launched a legal bid to have the Green family thrown out of the house – the most expensive on their street – they were handed less than three years ago.
It is claimed the family, who have a lengthy record of criminal offending and have been subject to anti-social behaviour orders, owe the council thousands of pounds in unpaid rent.
Police have been called to the property on a regular basis since the Greens, who have ten children, moved in.
Neighbours complained about all-night parties, vandalism, threats and under-age drinking.
In a formal eviction action, due to be heard this week at Perth Sheriff Court, the local authority alleges Simon and Emma Green owe £3,740.35. The council believes it is now entitled to ‘recover the property’ on Ross Street, Kinross.
One neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: ‘What a scandalous waste of taxpayers’ money this whole episode has been from start to finish.
‘It was ludicrous to expect these people to behave just by putting them in a nice property in a good street.
‘For it to end like this is no surprise at all. These people expect everything but can’t even be bothered paying their rent.
‘The council should be ashamed of wasting all this money. People who complained about the Greens behaviour were told they would have to move, rather than the Greens. Some did. And now the council’s kicking them out anyway. Heads should roll.’
The troublesome family moved north from England and entered the house at the start of 2014 after the council purchased it.
In their most recent brush with the law, daughter Ashleigh Green, 20, was fined £300 for using Facebook to post threatening messages to her neighbour.
Green accused Nikola Thain and her partner of attacking another member of her family and the couple were charged in relation to the alleged assault.
But they were cleared after other members of the Green family gave evidence which was contradictory and a sheriff found the couple not guilty. Green posted a Facebook message to Miss Thain telling her: ‘You made the biggest mistake...’
Mrs Green, 38, was fined £200 for punching her oldest son Scott and subjecting him to a tirade of homophobic abuse after he revealed he was gay.
And days later it was Scott himself who stood in the same dock before being jailed for seven months for a string of drug-fuelled crimes.
A Police Scotland spokesman confirmed: ‘Police officers have attended in the area of Ross Street on a number of occasions in recent months following complaints of an anti-social nature.
‘Residents deserve to live in relative peace and quiet and should not have to tolerate anti-social behaviour in whatever form it takes.’
Neighbour Angela Struth quit her home of 12 years after council chiefs refused to move the Greens. The mother-of-three said: ‘It’s a disgrace. My family is being punished but we’ve done nothing wrong. I was told by a housing officer that if I wanted the Greens out of our lives then it was us who would have to move.’
She added: ‘I blame the council for moving the Greens into a nice quiet street.’
The local authority went to court to win interim anti-social behaviour orders banning the Greens from shouting, swearing, making threats and playing music or the TV too loudly.
A spokesman for Perth and Kinross Council said: ‘The council does not comment on individual circumstances.’
Its legal bid states: ‘The pursuers ask the court to grant decree against you, removing you, and your family, sub-tenants and dependents, with your goods and possessions from the property.’
Mrs Green originally from Lincolnshire, insisted that the family were victims of ‘anti-English racism’.
She added: ‘Most of what’s been said about us is b ****** . We’re just trying to live a quiet life.’
‘Scandalous waste of money’