Woman aged 98 to be evicted from home

A 98-year-old “neighbour from hell” is to be thrown out of her home after council chiefs won an eviction order.

A judge yesterday gave Mary Plaisted 28 days to get out of the sheltered housing flat she has lived in for the past 28 years.

The pensioner will become the oldest person ever thrown out of her accommodation by Southampton City Council, after making the lives of her elderly neighbours a misery.



The authority said it was left with “no alternative” after claiming she had assaulted carers and council staff, harassed neighbours, endangered the lives of others by using her community alarm 563 times in a month, and made 264 calls to police in two years.

At Southampton County Court, District Judge Robert Naylor approved the council’s application to throw out Mrs Plaisted, after hearing she had been assessed as “mentally capable”.

Chris Perry, director of Age Concern Hampshire, said he is concerned at the prospect of such an elderly woman being thrown out of her home. “At the end of the day, they can’t turf someone out on the street at 98 years of age – they still have a responsibility to her,” he said. “It’s going to be a very difficult eviction to push through. I’ve never heard of anyone that old being evicted before.”