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Article: 'Shameless' family flit on eviction day HOUSING: Bailiffs arrive to find 12 occupants have gone
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- March 12, 2007
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BAILIFFS turned up in force to evict Birmingham's 'Shameless'
family of 12 - only to discover they had already left.
Police officers, locksmiths, housing chiefs and maintenance men
from Sandwell Council accompanied bailiffs to the house in West Road
on the Durham estate in Great Barr.
Sandwell Homes had been awarded an eviction warrant after Alviria
Benjamin and her family ignored a February 24 deadline given by
Recorder Mary Wilson as she awarded a possession order for the house.
However, it seemed that the family - dubbed the 'Shameless' family
after the TV clan - called their bluff by vacating the property.
Locksmiths had to break in as residents and camera crews looked