A NUISANCE mother and son who pestered emergency services with a whopping 820 CALLS in just three years have been evicted from their home after making their neighbours life a misery.
‘Nightmare neighbours’ Tina Lean, 43, and Jamie Power, 20, persistently pestered police fire and ambulance with their time-wasting calls.
Police say the pair have called 999 an astonishing 820 times since 2008 – that’s at least five times a week – becoming a serious drain on public resources.
At Milton Keynes County Court Lean and Power were told they would be forcibly evicted from their homes yesterday.
Police and housing trust bosses have welcomed the ruling, and this week the pair’s next neighbours expressed their delight branding the duo ‘an absolute nightmare’.
Neighbour Nick Burridge, 59, said: “You try and ignore them, but you never know what will happen next. Children were having to bypass the house, and the police and ambulances were there all the time.
“In just the past two nights they came back drunk in a cab, she fell out and lay in the road for half an hour saying she couldn’t move. And when the ambulance came the police soon followed and she was took away.
“Soon after she was back and was fine and then they called the police again because they were having an argument.
“The next morning they had the fire brigade out, I think they had locked themselves out. Then they had the police out again for arguing between the two of then.
“Apparently he fell down the stairs so an ambulance took him away. About two hours later he came back and he was fine.
“Later on the police came out for a third time in two days and warned them again. This is just the latest snap-shot in whats been a nightmare 15 years.
“They have tiffs with each other, trying to get each other arrested.”
The neighbours said the nightmare pair’s behaviour had forced them to install CCTV on the outside of their house – to use as evidence and to aid the police who are constantly called to the time-wasting couple’s house.
In one video, Power can be seen rolling around the front garden in apparent agony, whilst his mother is on the phone to the emergency services asking for an ambulance.
But when Lean goes inside for a moment, Power can clearly be seen pulling down the T-shirt that was covering his eyes and looking around.
Once the ambulance arrives, paramedics make little effort to attend to Power who rolls around wailing on the floor.
“We just want them gone now, we’ve tried everything,” the fed-up neighbour added.
“We got a petition and everyone on the road signed it. Everyone knows them. They go around people’s houses asking if they can use their phone to dial 999.
“I have to tell my grandson to cross the road to walk past their house and tell him to ignore them and not speak to them.”
A court order back in December prevented the pair from approaching and threatening their neighbours.
Neighbourhood Insp Omar Abu-Rish, from Thames Valley Police, said: “I think these two individuals are known to every police officer in Aylesbury.
“We have received around 820 calls from them over the last few years. They have been a constant drain on police and ambulance resources, causing a nuisance and distress to their neighbours”.
But Lean claims that she is in fact the victim and says she is stunned after being told she was to be forced out of the home she has lived at for the past 20 years.
“I’m the victim here,” she said. “This is my home and they’ve taken it away from me.”
But she vowed to leave the address yesterday without a fuss.
“I want it to be quiet, and I want to go with some dignity. But it’s breaking my heart,” she added.
“I think people think we’re bad people, now people are abusing us in town, and threatening us.
“It’ll be a fresh new start, we’ll try and get on with the neighbours and not have the police to the address all the time.”
Lean and Power were served with an eviction order after police and the Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust – which owns the home – applied to have them thrown out.
The Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust (VAHT), which owns the property, says it will resume its call for an injunction if the pair cause any future problems.
Tracie Gilbert, antisocial behaviour manager at VAHT, said: “We do not take the decision to eviction lightly, however we will not tolerate residents making their neighbours’ lives a misery.”
A statement from the trust said it had explored ‘every other course of action’ before seeking an eviction.
But Lean said she had been told by VAHT that if the next two years are quiet, the pair can apply to go back on the housing register.
“I think we can do two years,’ she added. ‘There won’t be any (999 calls) unless they’re genuine. I’m just sorry for the police, and I will apologise.”
