‘ALL HELL WAS BREAKING LOOSE... IT’S NOT FUN LIVING IN THIS STREET’
Neighbours claim that ‘drug addicts and squatters’ are making their lives a misery
FAMILIES living in neighbouring streets say their lives are being made a misery by ‘squatters and junkies’.
Residents of Carron Street, Fenton, say issues centre on a terrace house where a group of people seemingly live with no electric or gas.
Problems include drug users staggering in the middle of the road, discarded needles and late-night noise.
But a particular cause for concern involves a woman thought to be squatting in the property who has been repeatedly accused of following and grabbing mothers and their children. No one answered the door when The Sentinel visited this week.
Police have been called to the street several times but neighbours claim nothing is being done.
Mum Sarah Taylor says she feels ‘trapped’ in her Carron Street home. The 46-year-old said: “It’s the worst estate I’ve ever lived on in my life for being filthy dirty – people dumping rubbish all down the alleyways, junkies pacing the streets chucking needles and smoking monkey dust.
“It’s disgusting. And then you’ve got the likes of them in that house with no electric or gas for two years and they’re still living there. I can’t understand why the landlord has allowed them to stay. I won’t stay here with my kids until they’re gone.
“Basically nobody’s bothered. I’ve tried my hardest to get off the estate but I can’t find anywhere that takes benefits – because I’ve got health issues.
“I’m waiting for a lung transplant. I feel trapped.”
Zuzana Bogyoova, aged 30, also of Carron Street, also wants to move.
She said: “I moved in five years ago. The first two years were fine, then we had that knife stabbing because of the benefit houses. Then it got chilled but these guys have started now. It seems like nobody wants to do anything because they’re foreign. I’m foreign myself but, you know.
“The woman is always staring at people and shouting. She looks off her face. I’ve not seen anything with the kids, but I know some people have had problems.
“Parents shouldn’t have to be worried over the school holidays, when there’s nice weather, when there’s some person like that about.
“I don’t want any of my friends and family here to come and hear that straight from my window. If I want to do a barbecue with my girlfriends I can’t. It makes me feel like I don’t want to invite anyone here. I’m considering moving next year.”
Another neighbour says he is constantly woken up at night by the noise. He added: “It’s so disturbing and disgusting to have people like that on the street. The house has been in that state for the whole five years I’ve lived here. They’re crack addicts, Eastern Europeans.
“There’s always shouting and arguing in the street at God knows what time. I think the back windows don’t exist either. It’s a horrible state for a property. Others have moved because the crime in the area is so bad.”
A third Carron Street neighbour said: “On Tuesday night night all hell was breaking loose in the street and the police were here. It’s not fun at the minute in this street.
“I came home about a week anda-half ago from work - and I thought there’s something wrong there. This woman was too forward for my liking.
“It was on the Neighbourhood Watch about this woman who had
followed her with her grandchildren back from school and was trying to touch the kids. A lot of children do come down this way to go to school.
“So to have somebody like that in the street - it’s not a good thing, it’s not nice at all. Hopefully, if they move her on the street might quieten down and
we might get back to a bit of normality again.”
Another added: “They’ve been trying to snatch kids in front of parents, which is quite shocking. I’ve heard reports last week of them hovering round the back, trying back doors and things like that.”