A 20-year-old mum of three due to be thrown out of her home by the council is concerned her children, including a three-week-old baby, will suffer as the family now face a life on the streets.

The troubled Vange woman, her boyfriend Jay Robinson, 19, and their baby and two other children aged one and four are to be evicted from their house within the next four to six weeks.

Bleak future - Kelly with her boyfriend Jay and three children Picture: ROBIN WOOSEY

The Evening Echo reported last week that Kelly Palfreman, of Frettons, Pitsea, who has been branded a neighbour from hell by people in the area, was to be thrown out of her home yesterday.

The family have now been offered a temporary four- week reprieve while the court deals with all the paperwork - but are already resigned to being moved out into a bed and breakfast on February 20 and then thrown out onto the streets.

She said: "Our oldest child has started asking what's going on as he knows something is not right. Every time he is with my mother he does not want to come home.

"We have absolutely no one - there are five of us and me and my boyfriend's mum already have lots of kids to look after.

"We are thinking about private rental, but they don't take DSS and we would need a deposit, which we do not have. We do not know what to do."

Ms Palfreman admits she has been a noisy neighbour in the past, with friends shouting outside the house and loud music.

However, she claims she and her boyfriend are now reformed characters.

A spokeswoman for Basildon council said: "The evictions won't be for another four to six weeks."

Published Thursday, January 23, 2003

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