A freezing family spent eight months over winter without glass in the front door and window of their housing association home after it was raided by masked men. Anthony Corkill, 38, was asleep last year when masked men used hammers to break into his home last summer.
They took nothing and police quickly dropped the case, and his landlords, PA Housing, used planks of wood to board up the damage. But, it took them eight months to replace the glass - during which time Anthony and his family were left to suffer the cold.
Temperatures inside his home dropped to an estimated couple degrees the family said, and they could even see their own breaths on the coldest days. Anthony, from Leicester, said: "On PA's website it says all maintenance requests should be dealt with within 15 days. But, after eight months, we were still waiting for the them to send someone round and replace the glass - it was a nightmare."
