TWO more nuisance neighbours have been kicked out of their house after a catalogue of "appalling" behaviour.
Barry Anderson, 21, and Kamara Griffiths, 19, were living in a council home in Kingsway West in Acomb, York, but have been booted out after York County Court heard how they had made their neighbours' lives a misery.
The pair had been tenants of the two-bedroom house since October 2005, and in those two years they managed to break the conditions of their tenancy agreement on 123 occasions.
Their persistent bad and antisocial behaviour included playing loud music, shouting and swearing, intimidating and harassing neighbours and riding mini-motos in the street, on the pavement, on Hob Moor and in the garden.
They also failed to keep their dogs under control and were verbally abusive and intimidating to council officers.
The judge, who awarded City of York Council immediate possession of the house, described their behaviour as "appalling".
Even after Anderson and Griffiths were served with harassment warnings and a warning regarding the use of mini-motos by the police, they continued with their spree of antisocial behaviour.
They also received several warnings about keeping their dogs under control, a noise abatement notice, a breach of tenancy notice, a warning about bonfires and a further warning about the use of mini-motos from the council's environmental protection team.
A City of York Council spokesperson said: "The behaviour of Kamara Griffiths, Barry Anderson and their visitors was intolerable for their neighbours and completely unacceptable to the council, as their landlord.
"Council departments and the police worked closely together to tackle the problem and to support the people who had to endure antisocial behaviour every day. Despite the many warnings and notices Griffiths and Anderson received, they carried on without any regard for their neighbours.
"We are very grateful to the neighbours who had the courage to come forward to give evidence, even in the face of persistent harassment. It was everyone working together that has put an end to these tenants' selfish, yobbish behaviour."
Anderson and Griffiths are just the latest council tenants to be evicted for antisocial behaviour.
The Press reported how Mark Caple was given the boot from his flat in Fossway last month, while Leanne Langstaff, also of Kingsway West, was evicted in August and Timothy Duckitt was kicked out of his flat in Burdyke Avenue, Clifton, in July for using it to grow cannabis.
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