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Asbo bans prostitute from sheltered housing complex in west Hull |
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Published in The Hull Daily Mail
1st February 2012
A PROSTITUTE has been banned from a sheltered housing complex where she has terrorised elderly residents for years. Aisha Delaney, described by detectives as "demonic", has been given an Asbo preventing her coming within ten metres of Thornton Court, west Hull.
She was also given a four-month suspended sentence for breaching a previous Asbo, which banned her from all communal areas and other people's rooms or from letting anyone into the council-owned complex.
Hull City Council sought the eviction order last year, after Delaney, of west Hull, and her niece Victoria Carroll, 30, left the elderly and vulnerable people living in Thornton Court too frightened to leave their homes. Delaney, 55, is now banned from returning to the home she shared with husband Terry at the complex.
District Judge Ian Buxton said: "Thornton Court is a place where elderly people reside. Mrs Delaney, by her conduct, and indeed Miss Carroll, have destroyed the atmosphere in Thornton Court, which has effectively deprived the residents there of a normal and peaceful life."
Drug addict Delaney was accused of stealing, leaving syringes lying in bathrooms, screaming and shouting throughout the night and inappropriate sexual behaviour.
Kevin Guy, prosecuting, said: "It has been referred to as Cell Block H when Aisha is around. The tenants feel compelled to stay under lock and key."
In November, Delaney and Carroll were found guilty of stealing from residents in the complex. Delaney was given six months in jail, but was released after time spent on remand.
Carroll, of Pease Street, west Hull, remains in prison after pleading guilty to four counts of fraud and two counts of theft. She was also sentenced for stealing a credit card from a 68-year-old man at his home in Walliker Street, west Hull, and withdrawing £178.
Four months earlier, Delaney was imprisoned for 100 days for burglary from another tenant's home while he was in hospital.
Delaney has 59 past convictions, relating to 114 offences including theft, sexual offences, fraud and offences against people and property.
Judge Buxton told her: "You are beyond redemption and it is impossible for you to lead the sort of life that would allow you to cohabit normally and regularly with other neighbours."
The council originally applied for the order last October. The case was adjourned to give Delaney time to find legal representation but she appeared in court with no lawyer.
She denied terrorising residents at Thornton Court and blamed the rest of her family. She said: "Why am I getting all the blame for this when it is all my family?"
Granting the Asbo, Judge Buxton said: "Aisha Delaney has been nothing but trouble to all those with whom she has come into contact. She has no respect for other people. The report she has given me is a tissue of lies.
"I said I was sorry for her. In one sense, I am sorry for her because it isn't just other people's lives she's continued to destroy, it is her own. Other people can be protected, but I cannot protect her from herself."
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