The partner of a convicted drug dealer is to be evicted from the home they shared after she allowed her house in Dundee to be used as a base for his drug-dealing activities.
Nadine Getty, 29, of Craigievar Walk, Ormiston Crescent in Whitfield, is the third such tenant to be evicted by Angus Housing Association following a massive street riot involving feuding drug families in the area in 2010.
Following the riot, police drugs officers mounted an operation, swooping on several homes in the area and making several arrests, which led to the conviction of a number of people at the High Court in Glasgow in January last year.
The guilty men had been dealing in heroin and cocaine with a street value of more than £900,000, the court was told.
One of those convicted was Nadine Getty’s partner Liam Gray, who was sentenced to six years in prison.
Following an application by Angus Housing Association, Sheriff Tom Hughes has now granted an eviction decree at Dundee Sheriff Court against Nadine Getty.
In its eviction application the association said it was clear from all of the evidence gathered that Ms Getty had allowed her house to be used as a base for some of the drug dealing activities.
Many of the individuals involved in the drugs case were also involved in the street riot that led to eviction action the association pursued against five tenants in 2012.
It is understood that of those five, only one remains a tenant of the association. Two were previously evicted, one gave up her tenancy after another legal action against her and the other has since died.
Angus Housing Association director Bruce Forbes said: “While I will not comment on any individual case, Angus Housing Association will continue to take a zero-tolerance approach to any tenant dealing, or allowing anyone else, to deal drugs from our houses or in the communities where we are a landlord.
“We will, therefore, have no hesitation in raising legal proceedings and ultimately, evicting any tenant convicted of drug dealing anywhere in the vicinity of our houses.”
WITNESSES TOO SCARED TO GIVE EVIDENCE
A detective told a previous eviction hearing in 2012 that witnesses were too scared to give evidence in court after a riot in Ormiston Crescent two years previously.
Detective Constable Colin Echavarria told the hearing that a driver mounted a grass verge and drove into a group of “four to six males”, knocking a man down before driving over him and then reversing back over him during the riot, Dundee Sheriff Court heard.
The victim then got up and ran off without reporting the incident and, despite the witness’s accounts and others stating they saw the car, no one could identify the driver in statements to the police.
None of the witnesses was prepared to speak up in court however, meaning no one was prosecuted.
In addition to the vehicle incident, residents gave statements about members of rival families using swords, knives, a hammer, a crowbar, crossbow, machete and baseball bats against each other.
Five tenants on Ormiston Crescent faced eviction from their homes after Angus Housing Association raised a civil action against them following the incident on September 25, 2010.
Lucy Bannon or Quinn and Gillian Fraser or Douglas, both of Torwood Place, Leanne Anderson of Cardoness Walk, Natasha Quinn of Roseburn Gardens and Wendy Hunter of Cassidy Walk, defended the action which, the housing association said, has been raised due to them or their family members or visitors to their homes being involved in the “extremely serious” incident and/or in anti-social behaviour, including drug dealing in the area.
Only one of the five women still remains a tenant of Angus Housing Association.