Eviction from £1.7m home thwarted

Ivan Allan and Glory Ann Clibbery were lovers for 15 years

A racehorse owner's ex-lover has thwarted attempts to evict her from Newmarket's "millionaire's row".

Ivan Allan won a court action to have Glory Ann Clibbery, 51, and her mother and his former housekeeper, Marguerite Clibbery, 78, evicted from his house.

When bailiffs arrived on Wednesday to enforce the action they faced wired gates and locked doors.

The women claimed the £1.7m house was legally the mother's home after 18 years' residence.

Miss Clibbery had a 15-year relationship with multi-millionare Mr Allan which ended in 2000 when she moved from a Mayfair flat to join her mother at The Gables.

It has been completely unfair as far as we are concerned, and we will lock the doors Glory Ann Clibbery

When he applied for the eviction order, Mr Allan told a High Court judge that is was a business relationship, not a loving one, and Miss Clibbery was paid £1,000 a month to be at his side.

Mother and daughter, who spent the day packing up their belongings behind the locked doors, say they feel they have been treated very badly.

They believe that with another court hearing due in October, the eviction should not be going ahead now.

"It has been completely unfair as far as we are concerned, and we will lock the doors and we will not make it easy for them, but we will not do any harm to anybody," Miss Clibbery said before the bailiffs arrived.

Wire cutters

"We want to make a very graphic and public statement about what this is."

When a court enforcement officer failed to gain entry to the house after using wire cutters to get through the gate on Wednesday, he spoke to Miss Clibbery on the phone.

She said she would not leave the house.

Now the bailiffs say they are not going to rush the eviction which they want to end peacefully.

Mr Allan was not available for comment.