A Gateshead pensioner hit with a new threat of eviction from his home has been granted a temporary reprieve – but a judge has warned he is in the “last chance saloon”.
Ken May was facing the prospect of bailiffs removing him from his council house in Wardley this week, but efforts to kick him out of the home he has lived in since 1955 have been suspended for now. The 69-year-old has been embroiled in a long-running dispute with Gateshead Council over the state of his property in Standfield Gardens, which he moved into when he was just a baby.
Mr May has previously been ordered to clean up the mess around the house and have it reconnected to the electricity grid, after he had used a petrol generator to power it. The latest development in the saga saw the retired merchant seaman served with a new eviction notice earlier this month, on the grounds that he was refusing to let council housing officials carry out inspections at the home.
