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Pest controllers tackle Plymouth flat after hoarder evicted
26/01/2012
A hoarder from Plymouth has been evicted from his vermin-infested flat and pest controllers have moved in, after putting his neighbours through a ‘living hell’ due to his squalid living.
Anthony Drake, 54, has been handed an indefinite antisocial behaviour order by Plymouth Magistrates Court, banning him from his local authority flat in the city’s Pike Road. He was taken to court by Plymouth County Council, after nine lorries had been needed to remove the hoarded detritus from his flat.
Council antisocial behaviour officer, Debbie Goad, told the court that she had never seen a case like it.
“The property was filled with all manner of things. There was an awful lot of food in there," said Ms Goad, who also spoke of seeing cockroaches, flies and rodent evidence in the flat, and later found she was covered in flea bites.
Nine lorries were required to clear the rubbish from the garden of the flat alone, and a decontamination company have already had to clean the flat three times. Steven Didymus, from landlords Plymouth Community Homes, told the court, “There was a concern that the floor could have fallen into the flat below were it to get any worse.”
