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Last updated 00:00, Thursday, 08 March 2007

By Staff Reporter

ONE of Cumbria’s largest housing landlords has won its first county court injunction to protect tenants in Keswick because of trouble caused by a Workington woman.

Home also won a judgement to curb the antics of a family in Moresby Parks and another resident in Egremont who has broken the terms of his anti-social behaviour order.

Anna Gee lives in Harrington Road, Workington, and does not rent from Home but she has plagued its tenants while visiting her on-off partner in Keswick, according to a Home spokesperson.

Many incidents were alcohol related, said Home, and involved ringing doorbells at all hours, banging doors and kicking in doors to get into blocks of flats.

Now the injunction bans her from The School House and Coleridge Court parts of town.

Gee could be arrested if she breaks the terms of the two-year injunction, which was granted at Whitehaven County Court.

In Moresby Parks near Whitehaven, Copeland Homes – a branch of Home Housing – has won interim anti-social behaviour orders against 48-year-old Tom Thompson, brothers Leon and Shane – aged 19 and 18 – and 22-year-old relative Joseph William Thompson.

They live close to each other in Moresby Parks Road and have all been banned from entering certain parts of Moresby Parks.

Meanwhile David Burns, 28, of Egremont, avoided being sent to prison after admitting breaching an anti-social behaviour order twice since November.

Last week, Burns admitted two breaches of his injunction at Carlisle County Court and was given a two-month prison sentence suspended on condition that he obeys the order for six months.

The injunction against Burns, of Tennyson Drive on the Orgill estate, forbids him from engaging in threatening or abusive behaviour to any person living at 25 Tennyson Drive or harassing any such person or using abusive behaviour against them.

He is also forbidden from encouraging anyone else to do the same thing.

A spokesperson for Home’s Tenancy Enforcement team, which has worked closely with police, said “We hope that this will send a clear message that we will not permit anti social behaviour in or around our properties regardless of who is causing the problems.

“Home will not hesitate to use the courts to ensure that our law-abiding residents can live in their homes in peace.”

Home manages over 50,000 homes including around 12,000 in Cumbria – 8,000 through Home Housing and around 4,000 under the banner of Copeland Homes.