‘Nightmare’ teenager is thrown out of Colchester home

Police have been called almost daily to the home of Kirsty Bloomfield, in Maidenburgh Street, since late last year, to reports of screaming, shouting and a friend of the 18-year-old urinating on a neighbour’s doorstep.

Siobhan Duke, 36, decided to move elsewhere in Colchester last month after living next to Miss Bloomfield became too much to bear.

Speaking of her nine-month hell, she said: “I lived there about three years and never had a problem.

“She moved in in October and I just thought she was a struggling young mum with two kids.

“I have a five-year-old autistic son and two teenage daughters. We could hear her having sex every night.

“They would see us in the kitchen and shout abuse at us, which would really upset my daughters. It was bothering my son at school, too.

“It has been a nightmare – I wouldn’t want anyone else to go through this.”

Another neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: “We could hear screaming – it was periodic and really prolonged.”

The residents spoke out after District Judge Simon Mitchell agreed to grant a seven-day possession order on the terraced house in the town’s Dutch Quarter.

After seven days, bailiffs will be called and Miss Bloomfield looks set to be evicted from the Colchester Council-owned property.

Rebekah Straughan, the council’s lawyer, told the hearing at Colchester County Court neighbours had heard Miss Bloomfield and friends shouting in the street at all hours.

She said: “Since December, 2010, we have had reports of swearing, shouting and nuisance behaviour.

“One of the guests urinated on a neighbour’s doorstep.

Miss Bloomfield also owes more than £1,000 in rent after she stopped paying it in April when her benefit stopped, the court heard.

She did not attend the hearing and was not represented in court. She was also unavailable to speak to the Gazette.

As well as paying back the rent, she has been ordered to pay £300 costs.