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Pregnant mum moved house after living next to ‘hell on earth’
A mum-of-two said she had to move house because she was scared for her children after living next to a nightmare neighbour.
The once-quiet Briarfield Road in Ellesmere Port has been plagued in recent years by a neighbour who turned the street into “hell on earth”. The 50-year-old, and his friends caused havoc with late-night parties, drug use, and violence.
On Friday, May, 19 a closure order was granted and the house was boarded up by Cheshire Police. The mum said that life on the street was “horrendous” and was afraid to let her children go outside.
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She told the ECHO: “It was absolutely horrific just constant disruption, in the two and a half years we lived there it was none stop 24 hours a day. People were in and out of the house, and police were there constantly he was always off in the street kicking off or someone else was kicking off.
“It was horrendous I mean at the time my daughter must have been 13 and we could not come out through the front door. I would not let her leave that way, we would always come in the house through the alleyway because we did not want to be in the street.”
The man has since been ordered to leave the property and find alternative accommodation, with all windows and doors being boarded up for three months. Anyone who enters the address during that time will be committing a criminal offence and could be arrested.
One man who has lived on the street for six years said: “I think he is a decent lad who has just got caught up with the wrong people, he is well-mannered when he speaks to me. I think it is the people he hangs around with and he has a bad bunch of mates he needs to eliminate from his life.
“There was one big fight about two months ago in the middle of the day and I have never seen so many police in my life, they were all off their faces. It is anti-social and I’m concerned about kids witnessing this kind of stuff it must have an effect on them.
“The house has been boarded up before and people have been complaining about him for years. I think it has been a lot worse for the people who live next door to him. I think he deserves another chance but it has to be his last one.”
The order was a direct result of officers responding to the concerns of residents regarding the behaviour of the man at the address who was well-known to local police for anti-social behaviour, drug-related activity, and violence.
The mum-of-two said: “It is the worst I have seen and I have lived in some rough places. The rest of the street was lovely but that was something else. He would have these massive speakers and party all night. People banging on the doors in the middle of the night shouting ‘let me in’.
“It was hell on earth nobody wanted to be there because of the people who would be in and out of the house. We knew we could not stay there forever.”
Police Constable Lucy Hawkins of Ellesmere Port Neighbourhood Beat Team, said: “This neighbourhood is made up of young families and ensuring that they, along with everyone else within the community, can live safely and without fear of violence or criminality being committed on their doorstep is one of our top priorities.
“The overwhelmingly positive response from our residents is a testament to their long-standing support and bravery in speaking out against this problematic resident who has caused them nothing but anguish for a long time.
“Anyone with concerns about ASB or other criminality in their community should contact local neighbourhood officers and we will do everything we can to address these issues.”
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