Street throws party celebrating “Tenant from Hell� Eviction

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Section 21:

Relieved neighbours clubbed together to throw a street party
to celebrate getting their street back after a nightmare “tenant from hell� was
evicted.

Tenant and mother of five, Katie Bentley, it was claimed,
did £25,000 worth of damage to her rented house in Bransholme, Hull, before the
landlord managed to secure an eviction.

Landlord Phil Withnall fought for months to get Bentley evicted
from his property which he claims had smashed windows, holes in the walls, ripped
up floorboards and mounds of rubbish in multiple rooms and the rear yard.

Mr Withnall eventually had to escalate the legal process to
the High Court before he could successfully evict.

The episode rather gives the lie to claims that tenants can
be thrown out on their ear, with little or no notice. According to the two main
landlord associations, The RLA & NLA, landlords will face even longer
delays if the Section 21 eviction process is abolished. Both are arguing vigorously
to retain the Section 21 accelerated eviction process, currently under threat
of abolition by the Conservative Government.

Bentley had become the bane of her neighbours’ lives, who had
complained bitterly about her raucous behaviour for months, on a weekly basis, about
the noise and the state of the surroundings of her rented home.

Bentley was finally evicted in March after a lengthy battle
with her landlord, supported by the neighbours who had pledged to throw the
party if the landlord ever managed to get shut of her.

The “Getting Our Street Back Party� as reported by Hull news, shows the strength of feeling
against Bentley and her disruptive behaviour which was making the street residents’
lives a misery.

And they all kept their promise by getting the whole
community together for the celebration, collecting £85 from neighbours to fund
a community barbecue, bouncy castle and games for the kids.

One neighbour told Hull
News:

“It has been absolutely great. It’s lovely – we can
sleep on a night and it’s just great. Everyone is so relieved and it means the
kids can play out in the street with no backlash off her.”

Bentley commented:

“I went to jail in October for a week for failing to
surrender because I didn’t want to hand myself in to the police.

“While I was in prison my windows got smashed by
smackheads. All the loud noises the neighbours hear is me getting beaten up.
It’s me shouting for help…â€�

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