Family of gypsies wreck their £1.2m council house

[Sharon]

A FAMILY of gypsies are making wealthy neighbours' lives a misery after being housed by a council in a £1.2million semi - that is a total WRECK.

Tom O'Leary, 42, and wife Tanya Walsh, 39 - who live on benefits with their 12 kids - have spent a year in the five-bed home at Muswell Hill, North London, which they say is owned by Haringey Council.
Locals want them booted out after a string of complaints.




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Ruined ... paint has been stripped from home's walls

A shocking dossier, compiled by council officials, has now been passed to The Sun - spelling out the misery the family have brought to the neighbourhood.
And when we inspected the house yesterday, we found it had been completely RUINED.
Ceilings have collapsed, paint has been stripped off walls and electric sockets are hanging out.
Bicycles are strewn across hallways and mattresses lie on the floors. Children run amok everywhere, riding shiny new bikes around the corridors.
Meanwhile, floors are filthy and the garden has been used as a dumping ground for fire extinguishers, mattresses and rubble.
Wealthy neighbours have now fired off a string of accusations about the family's behaviour.
Twenty-eight were made in council documents, dated February 4 and seen by The Sun.
It is believed they were in addition to previous complaints about anti-social behaviour made by neighbours last year. Residents have claimed that the family:



HURLED beer cans, flower pots and broken glass over fences;



YELLED "rich *Removed*at affluent homeowners in the street;
DUMPED used toilet roll in neighbours' properties;
Let DOGS bark for hours on end and turned the air blue with blazing rows at all times, and PILED up a mountain of overflowing rubbish bins in the property's front garden.

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The O'Leary family have been housed by Haringey Council in about 20 different homes in the past decade. One burned down. It is believed the couple are secure tenants in their current home, meaning they have it for life, with the option of right to buy - and sell.



But fuming neighbours have launched a campaign to have them booted out of the street and a Neighbourhood Watch group is being formed to keep tabs on them.

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Tanya, who lives off benefits with O'Leary, denied all the allegations with a wave of her hand.
Sitting in her living room, which is painted a gaudy shade of pink, she moaned that the council hadn't given the family a better home, accused police of harassing them - and claimed neighbours wanted them out because they were gypsies.
She said: "I've lost count of the times the police have been over.
"I've been accused of neglecting my children, which is a lie. I've had meetings with the Anti-Social Behaviour people at the council.
"I just wish they would find a caravan site for me to move to so I wouldn't have to live beside my neighbours. That would be heaven.
"The council have not given us any furniture and are slow to carry out repairs. They don't have the money to help travellers since David Cameron got into government.The house used to be a hostel, so the kitchen is upstairs and I've got 12 kids walking up and down the stairs with their dinner plates to the front room. Two have had falls."

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Standing amid the debris in a downstairs room, she added: "I don't want to show you the upstairs because it's a bit messy right now."
The chain-smoking couple have five boys and seven girls aged between one and 16. Each summer they roam the countryside in a caravan. Tanya said: "That's heaven, though we get moved on a lot."
House prices in Muswell Hill, where residents include Spandau Ballet star Tony Hadley and opera diva Katherine Jenkins, range from £670,000 to £4million.
One neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: "We feel really vulnerable right now. I've called the council to complain of young children unattended and naked in the street, but they seem to do nothing.
"The police could do nothing about a very serious complaint we made, so the neighbours are coming together to have something done."
Another neighbour said: "A house like that one should be worth around £1.2million. But with the state it's in at the moment, it might only be worth £700,000."
The lives of traveller families have been highlighted recently by TV's Big Fat Gypsy Weddings.
In a letter sent to O'Leary and his family last week, an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer warned: "I have continued to receive complaints regarding nuisance coming from your property.

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"I will be referring the matter to our legal team for them to advise on what action can be taken."
A Haringey Council spokesman said last night: "We'll look into this situation as a matter of urgency."
In October 2008 we revealed how Afghan single mum Toorpakai Saeidi was lording it in a £1.2million mansion in Ealing, West London.

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How annoying.

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[matt$]

So they're causing mayhem in a house they received for free annoying people who paid for their houses and saying 'is it cus im a gypsy' so that they'll prob get offered an even better house so its they dont get accused of being racist. What a ****** system.

[Ajthedragon]

That's almost £100,000 worth of property per person. For me and my family it's only £40,000, and my parents work for a living. This is why I feel the government was right to rack council budgets, it should make them think twice about giving property's to people like this. I also believe that people which are clearly below the poverty line should be allowed to have more than two or three children. We're not rich and barely knock on middle-class's door and we don't expect to be funded by government.

[Jordy]

Tanya, who lives off benefits with O'Leary, denied all the allegations with a wave of her hand.
"The council have not given us any furniture and are slow to carry out repairs. They don't have the money to help travellers since David Cameron got into government.The house used to be a hostel, so the kitchen is upstairs and I've got 12 kids walking up and down the stairs with their dinner plates to the front room. Two have had falls." lol typical it's David Cameron's fault and tbh I've no objection to these cuts. Councils shouldn't be wasting money on these people so I can't say I give a damn if they have no furniture and don't carry out repairs.

Cut off their benefits if they're capable of working. If they don't begin working, then put the children into care and take the house back off them :)

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tht rewm iz rlli pretti eye luv the pram and the big mirra and the color of the wals
eye want 2 make mi rewm lyke tht 1 day itz reli gud :D

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[FlyingJesus]

I don't get why they're given houses when they don't want them. It seems to be something councils do just to get rid of the hassle of having the move them on all the time when they're living as travellers, but surely there are people far more worthy and (more importantly) in need of being given council property

[dbgtz]

The only problem is the kids, what would happen to them if they are kicked out? I suppose they could take them away but yeah, not nice for them.
Kick them out though is what I say, the kids would be better off without their parents. They need someone to teach them how to read, not how to plea innocent. I don't even see how they can really be gypsies.

[Oleh]

Disgusts me that scum like this can even try to get sympathy, who cares if they are gypsies. If they were nice neighbours then gypsy wouldn't even be brought up.

[Niall!]

I think it's time the human race to start a cull...

[ChickenFaces]

That's kind of pathetic really.

[GommeInc]

I'm faily certain they're not gypsies, they are usually not at all associated with any sort of system, especially a council system. It makes me wonder if the gyspy thing was thrown in there to added fuel to the fire...

Anyway, they can be booted out. Anti-Social Behaviour is a huge offense, and if they have enough complaints they can be pulled out by the judiciary system, assuming you go through the right channels - the council usually gets dragged into it whether they like it or not. Why they need such a house is a mystery, and the bit about it being a hostel and that there have been accidents where the children have fallen down the stairs got me thinking... How many centuries of imbreeding have they gone through for them to not realise that they could move the living room/dining room upstairs?