Bailiffs wheel mistress from home

Glory Ann Clibbery had a leg amputated in June

Bailiffs have forced their way into the Newmarket home of a millionaire racehorse trainer to evict his former mistress from the £1.7m property.

Glory Ann Clibbery, 51, and her mother Marguerite Clibbery, 78, were in the house when bailiffs broke down a back door on Thursday morning.

Bailiff Brian Constant said Miss Clibbery was distressed and angry and was refusing to leave the house.

By 1500 BST she had been pushed in her wheelchair to the gates.

Miss Clibbery, who suffers from diabetes and had a leg amputated in June, was carried down the steps of the nine-bedroom redbrick mansion, before being wheeled off the premises by bailiffs.

He (Ivan Allan) has sucked me through the British legal system for the last four years Glory Ann Clibbery

Millionaire Ivan Allan, 63, won a High Court order in July to remove Miss Clibbery and her mother, his former housekeeper, from the house on Newmarket's "millionaires' row".

Miss Clibbery wept and hugged her mother as bailiffs left her on the pavement outside the house.

She said she had been "suicidal" when bailiffs forced their way in.

Mother 'bruised'

"This is the result of there not being any protection in law for partners.

"Until this country catches up with a large part of the rest of the world, people like Ivan Allan will be able to do this kind of thing.

"He has sucked me through the British legal system for the last four years."

Canadian-born actress Miss Clibbery had argued at the High Court that her mother had lived in the house for 15 years and had been promised by owner Ivan Allan that she could call it home for life.

Marguerite Clibbery lived in the house for 15 years

Miss Clibbery had gone to live with her mother after her relationship with Mr Allan ended in 2000.

When bailiffs arrived to enforce the action on Wednesday, they were met with wired gates and locked doors.

Miss Clibbery claimed they had told her she could have a few days' grace to pack and find somewhere to live.

"We have been ejected from the house having been told we had five days.

"They manhandled my mother, a 78-year-old woman, and left her with bruising," she said.

Mr Allan's solicitor, Stephen Beverley, said: "This is a sad day for all parties.

"The Clibberys have been given numerous opportunities to leave the property in a dignified manner.

"What's more, they have refused accommodation from the local authority."