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Anti-social behaviour - possession and
injunction
Anti-social behaviour - possession
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Issues
- Tenancy problems included refusing to allow
access by boarding up all the doors and windows, damaging property,
assaulting staff, posting derogatory comments about staff on a
dedicated web page and sending hundreds of faxes in order to
disrupt services.
Approach
- Discussion with partner agencies confirmed a
complex case, with mental health problems a complicating factor and
while the police were considering criminal proceedings there was
reluctance by agencies to take an approach which would place the
tenant in the prison system.
- RBH LSET contacted other agencies and housing
providers who the tenant had previously targeted in a similar way.
This research showed a previous private injunction on behalf of an
MP that had resulted in a custodial sentence. Details obtained were
used as evidence in the proceedings issues by RBH LSET.
- Detailed evidence was assembled by RBH LSET
to demonstrate a long term pattern of behaviour that the tenant was
incapable of changing.
- Following Court proceedings RBH LSET
successfully serve the injunction, despite attempts to evade this
by the tenant.
- RBH LSET provided the solicitors representing
the tenant for disrepair with detailed evidence that disrepair was
due to the tenants own actions.
Outcomes
- The tenants solicitors agreed not to pursue
the disrepair case.
- A 14 day possession order was granted. The
tenant left the property.
- A successful injunction was served -
with no further malicious web postings
- The property, together with the flat above
which had also been badly affected by disrepair, was converted into
a family home.