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87 Year Old Grandmother Forcibly Evicted From Her Home

An 87-year-old grandmother from the UK have been forcibly evicted from her home on Wednesday after bailiffs smashed down her door and forced her out onto the street. May Appleton and her sons say that bailiffs turned up to her home in Northwich, England and gave the family 30 minutes to leave the property while they smashed windows and broke down doors. Northwichguardian.co.uk reports: Brian Appleton, 61, May’s eldest son, said: “They got a sledgehammer to the door and smashed the window at the top – the glass went all over Mark and cut his hand and went halfway up the stairs. “All this time mum was stood in the living room shouting and screaming ‘leave my house alone, leave my things alone’. “Both Mark and Paul held off at the front door and they came round the back, we kept them off for 25 minutes but in the end they drilled the locks off. “They chucked all my mum’s stuff out on the front garden and trod all over it. “She was devastated, she was screaming.” May, 87, has lived in the Lostock Gralam house with her sons Brian, Mark, 51, and Paul, 49, since it was built. They have [...]