Sheffield County Court yesterday refused a tenant's application to suspend a warrant to evict her. On 21 August Sheffield Council obtained a possession order against Lynne Sedgewick, a Council tenant of Brightmore Drive, for several acts of anti social behaviour including arson. The possession order was suspended on condition that Ms Sedgewick did not cause a further nuisance.

The court was satisfied that Ms Sedgewick had breached the injunction; she was caught on CCTV using the lift at the Cornhill flats as a toilet and then wiping excrement around the inside of the lift.

Lynne Sedgewick has now been evicted from her flat.

Councillor Chris Weldon, the Council's Cabinet member for Neighbourhoods commented: "I am pleased that the court has supported our action, and recognised that we are acting to protect other tenants. Eviction is a last resort but we can not allow individuals to blight the lives of those living around them. We are determined to deal with anti social behaviour and will continue to take action against perpetrators."

The court was satisfied that Ms Sedgewick had breached the injunction; she was caught on CCTV using the lift at the Cornhill flats as a toilet and then wiping excrement around the inside of the lift.

Eww I never though that people would do that?? I've seen brown stuff of lifts before but I never thought . . .
I'll never lean against a lift again!! :wow: :shocked:

Originally posted by Geoff
The court was satisfied that Ms Sedgewick had breached the injunction; she was caught on CCTV using the lift at the Cornhill flats as a toilet and then wiping excrement around the inside of the lift.



Y'see, they'll evict her from those flats, but then they'll have to find her somewhere else to live, so she can make some other peoples lives hell.

What's the answer though? I'd be tempted to put Ms Sedgeqick in a cage in the zoo...

Errr, Dirty b***h wants re-housing in the nearest sewer if you ask me, but you did'nt so i'll shut up.:thumbsup:

Although it is just moving the problem, i think it *could* actually teach her a lesson. Maybe she will think twice next time.

That would imply that thought had gone into her excrement-wiping activites... something I've only ever seen from the genuinely ill or senile...

Agent Dan yeah thats true, mind you many of the things i see so called normal people do often make me wonder about their sanity. I hope some form of physiological evaluation was done before she was evicted.

Stick a couple of still shots from the CCTV footage in all the local papers - revenge is sweet!

Originally posted by back2basics
I hope some form of physiological evaluation was done before she was evicted.

If she did have physiological problems, evicting her was still the right thing to do. It's not fair on the other people who have to use the lift to put up with behaviour like that.

If she did have physiological problems, then she should have been placed in an appropriate home.

Maybe a few months of cleaning crap from lifts and pavements will do the trick.

Whilst I agreed that what this woman was witnessed doing is foul, I have to wonder what makes a person behave in this way? Her actions immediately suggest to me that she is mentally ill and I am inclined to believe that a little compassion and understanding in such cases may go a long way towards remediating anti-social behaviours. Eviction is one part of the solution - certainly for her neighbours, but is it not just shifting the problem elsewhere? Whatever this woman's state of mind, it is not resolved by (potentially) making her homeless.

Some of your comments imply that you believe that this is the behaviour of a woman who is nothing more than 'dirty' and needs to be 'taught a lesson'. There has to be more to it than that and perhaps if she was offered some psychological (not sure the nature of her illness would show up on a physiological assessment although people with brain tumours sometimes behave in odd ways....) support then her behaviour might be moderated somehow.

Instead of assuming the worst of people who commit anti-social acts I think we need to try to understand WHY and address that.