A mum with disabilities who was forced naked from her Easton home in October has supported squatters who have now occupied the property in protest. Ruth Nestor hopes to be able to move back in after what she says was a ‘distressing’ eviction.
The homeowner was evicted by high court bailiffs working for the National Eviction Team after insolvency practitioners, Richard Long & Co, was appointed receiver of her assets over a debt that she owed to Bristol City Council. She says that the debt had been sold on to the insolvency practitioners following a confiscation order, relating to a court order in 2012.
Now a group from Bristol Housing Action Movement has managed to get inside the property and has been occupying the house in Easton ever since. They told Bristol Live that the house looked like "a bomb had hit it", with most of the family's possessions removed, doors broken and rotting food left in the fridge-freezer.
