Drunken couple who made neighbours' lives a misery kicked out of Blackheath home

A couple whose drunken behaviour made their neighbours' lives a misery have been evicted from their council home and banned from a borough for five years.

moreFrankie O'Donnell, aged 26, and Samantha Truslove, 23, have now left the flat in Blackheath, after Sandwell Council, supported by police and others, took tenant O'Donnell to court to repossess the home at Moorlands Court, in Reservoir Road.

Council officers from the authority secured anti-social behaviour orders against the pair in February and they came into full effect at the end of last month when the keys to their home were handed over.

At the Asbo hearing, Walsall County Court was told O'Donnell and Truslove had used drugs in public places, including libraries and outside flats, been drunk in public, verbally abused and threatened council officers, begged for money from residents and committed crime throughout the borough.

The orders will run until February 2018, and bans them from entering Sandwell, apart from visiting relatives at specific addresses at specific times with named family members.

They also ban O'Donnell and Truslove from violent or threatening behaviour, including offensive language, damaging property, drinking alcohol or being found intoxicated by alcohol or drugs in public places; and begging for money in public places.

In a separate hearing at Sandwell Magistrates' Court last week, O'Donnell who is already in prison for a fraud offence, was jailed for a further four weeks for breaching an interim Asbo in place before his full Asbo was secured.

The breach took place on November 27 last year at the Sainsbury's store in Oldbury, when he threatened staff. O'Donnell is already serving a two month prison sentence for a fraud offence on January 18.

Insp Ian Massey said the borough would be a better place through the pair's 'prolonged absence'.