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Article: 'Shameless' family to be booted out of home.(News)
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- February 23, 2007
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Byline: By Emma Cullwick
THE "Shameless" family of 12 who knocked two houses into one to create an alleged illegal drinking den claim they will be left homeless when they are evicted from their home tonight.
Mum-of-ten Alviria Benjamin said her family had been victimised by Sandwell Council and she had been left to feel like a criminal.
"I have no criminal record," she said. "My only crime seems to be having had ten children."
Last month the Birmingham Mail exclusively revealed how Walsall County Court had ordered them to quit the council house in West Road, Hamstead, which had been their home for ten years. Recorder Mary Wilson granted a possession order to ...