Unbelievable gypsy scum
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An immigration officer returned from a night at the Royal Albert Hall to find a family of Romanian gipsies squatting in her house and the women wearing her clothes.
Julia High, 55, was even invited in and offered a glass of her own wine as the family of eight insisted their bogus tenancy document was legal.
She had left her terrace home in Leytonstone on a Friday morning to go to work and spent the weekend visiting her elderly parents in Guildford.
Neighbours raised the alarm on the Monday evening as she attended the Proms, and she returned to her home of 30 years to find the Romanians sitting around the dining table. Her possessions had been stuffed into bin bags and thrown into the back garden.
Ms High, who works at the UK Border Agency, said the family - five adults and three children - had told her neighbours that she was dead and they had rented the house from her "son".
She said: "The women came to the door dressed in my clothes, they were sitting around my dining room table, drinking my wine out of my glasses. They even offered me a drink and told me they were from Romania.
"They said I was dead and my son had rented the house to them. I am very much alive, single and I don't have a son."
The following day Ms High secured a county court eviction order, which the police served that evening. However, her home was left in a terrible state, with water damage to the kitchen and bathroom caused by the removal of lead roofing.
Carpets had been taken and her fridge and freezer emptied. She said the squatters took some of her clothes packed in her suitcases, along with a computer, containing precious pictures of her two-month-old grand-niece, and digital cameras.
Only her two beds and her wardrobes were left intact and her insurance claim is being frustrated by the loss of receipts and documents.
It has taken Ms High, who is staying with friends, two weeks to go through less than half of the bags piled in her garden. She expects it will be many more weeks before she can move back in. The front door had been levered open but she had no way of proving the Romanians were to blame.
She said: "These people have just trashed 30 years of my life and thrown it into bin bags. It is soul destroying."
The Standard tracked the squatters down to a house in nearby Kimberley Road. Neighbours said they moved in two weeks ago and the property is said to be owned by a doctor who bought it in March.
No one answered when the Standard knocked at the door, but children could be seen peeking out of the first-floor window.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-239...
Edited by amir_j on Tuesday 16th August 17:52
Read this just now on the train.
I can't belive that we still have such crap laws on squatting and a complete lack of balls when it comes to doing something about it! 20 Years ago I appeared on TV commenting to a reporter because one of my clients had this very issue and nothing has changed!
IMO this is worse than burglary. Its not just immigramts we have home grown scum that do the same.
I can't belive that we still have such crap laws on squatting and a complete lack of balls when it comes to doing something about it! 20 Years ago I appeared on TV commenting to a reporter because one of my clients had this very issue and nothing has changed!
IMO this is worse than burglary. Its not just immigramts we have home grown scum that do the same.
scum are booted out, job done.greygoose said:
Jasandjules said:
It beggars belief.
Why are they not currently in jail awaiting trial for theft?
And breaking and entering. Another year until the law is changed is too long imo.Why are they not currently in jail awaiting trial for theft?
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