A HEROIN addict who has terrorised neighbours for almost a decade has until noon today to leave her home in Prospect Road, Newport.
Medina Housing Association this week secured an Antisocial Behaviour Injunction against Shirley Barrett - whose home has been at the centre of at least four deaths.
The Isle of Wight County Court this week heard that two men had died at the property while another regular visitor was found hanged nearby on New Year's Eve last year.
Police have also dug up the garden in a search for another body, the hearing - which was uncontested by Barrett - was told.
Incidents of antisocial behaviour detailed to the court included regular noise disturbance, armed fights and visitors to the property having sex in the street.
Other witnesses claimed the property was used for dealing drugs and said used needles were scattered around the house and garden, and even thrown at children.
A police officer involved in one of many raids on Barrett's home told a neighbour they would "have a quieter time in Bosnia", a witness claimed.
Barrett - who has 52 unspent convictions - also failed to control her giant Great Dane which fouled the area and attacked people, according to witnesses.
The daughter of one of the men who died at Prospect Road named the property a "house of death".
In a statement, Amy McNamara, whose drug addict father was found dead in the bath there in 2002, claimed Barrett had not reported an earlier death at the house because she was waiting for his Giro cheque to come through.
Miss McNamara said: "I have come forward to give evidence so that people understand the extent of the defendant's involvement in drugs and the consequences of it.
"Dad and the defendant were also drug dealers. Every time I visited, a stream of people, sometimes as many as 15, would come and buy drugs from them."
Other Prospect Road residents told of the misery they had suffered at the hands of Barrett since she arrived in 1994.
Retired Joyce Rowson said Barrett appears high on drugs for much of the time.
"People living there are terrified of what will happen next and my own sister-in-law refuses to visit us because of her behaviour," she said.
Medina will now embark on proceedings to formally evict Barrett.
After the hearing, Medina's head of housing Angus Macdonald said: "This is a major step forward in dealing with anti-social behaviour. Our approach is to deal with violent behaviour effectively to help change the atmosphere for people living in our houses."
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