Pair evicted from house

Roy and Margaret Thomas who have been evicted

A Wetherby couple have been evicted from their house on Monday after making life unbearable for their elderly neighbours.

Roy and Margaret Thomas were forced to move out as part of a Leeds City Council policy to get tough on nuisance neighbours.

The pair, who lived in council property near a sheltered housing complex on York Road, in the stockbroker belt of West Yorkshire, were told to leave the property by officials from Leeds City Council backed up by police officers.

Neighbours of the couple say it has been two years of misery living near them, but evicted Mr and Mrs Thomas deny they have done anything wrong.

As they were turned out of the property Roy Thomas said: "What goes round, comes round."

A neighbour of the couple Winifred Ware said she had had a sheep's skull dumped in her dustbin by Mr Thomas.

Neighbour Winifred Ware told of a sheep's skull dumped in her bin.

She told BBC Look North: "It was a sheep's skull, not a head, and it was put in my dustbin, he (Mr Thomas) denies all knowledge of it, but my warden was with me when I opened the carrier bag with it in.

She added:" It was like Voodoo that, to me."

The Thomases have had to leave all their belongings at the property and can only return under escort to retrieve their goods.

The Leader of Leeds City Council, Councillor Keith Wakefield said: "It's the kind of action that people expect us to carry out.

"These are forms of anti-social behaviour which are clearly not acceptable in today's society."