A flat has been closed down after a "non-stop flow" of trouble ranging from drugs and brawls to allegations of racism. The tenant broke down in tears as a judge told her she was being made homeless.
Wearing a black puffer jacket over a floral dress Ceri Booth appeared at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on Monday where she denied a plague of antisocial behaviour had stemmed from her flat in the capital, 39 South Morgan Place in Canton, since she moved in shortly before last Christmas. Neighbours gave evidence against Booth with one claiming she had suggested he "go back" to his country.
The hearing had appeared set to go ahead without Ms Booth after she disappeared from the court but she eventually re-entered 25 minutes late. Cardiff Council pursued the closure order after placing the 54-year-old in the flat — on the first floor of a three-storey block — on a trial following her departure from a property in Splott because of antisocial behaviour allegations against her, said the council's representative Richard Grigg. "The problem seems to arrive wherever she's living," he added.
