A mother facing an eviction order today left for the last time the home where her son stabbed his brother to death.

Tracey Baxter walked out of the house, where she had lived for 12 years, as an army of court enforcement and housing officers gathered outside to evict her.

The semi-detached brick-built property, in Hazel Mount, Windhill, Shipley, had been the grim scene of the fatal family stabbing incident less than two years ago.

Mrs Baxter's youngest son Daniel, now 17, a schizophrenic, killed his brother Paddy, 20, and wounded his other brother Robert, 22, during the incident in November 2005. Daniel admitted murder and wounding and was detained at Her Majesty's pleasure.

Brunel Housing Association, which owns the property, successfully applied to court for a warrant to evict Mrs Baxter, Robert, and her 15-year-old daughter Emma, because rent arrears dating back to 2003 had not been cleared. Mrs Baxter claims the arrears were caused by the costs of Paddy's funeral.

Today she said she and Emma would now have to live in a tent in a field and she claimed the housing association had turned down her offer to clear the debts. Before the eviction she said: "I had arrears of £1,000. I paid off £800 two weeks ago and I offered to clear the rest in six weeks, but they turned me down flat.

"Emma and I will now be camping out in a tent in a field because we have nowhere else to go. It is not a nice prospect in this weather but it is all we can do."

Mrs Baxter said friends and neighbours in Shipley had taken in her furniture and she had found new homes for most of her pets - three ferrets, two cats and a dog. But her 12-year-old Rottweiler, Molly, which she had kept from a pup, was having to be put down because it could not be rehomed. She said neighbours had signed a petition of support.

A fleet of cars and vans from Brunel, the court enforcement office and the Council dog warden service arrived outside the property in pouring rain yesterday afternoon. They were greeted by shouted insults from a downstairs window at the house and a large protest banner above the doorway.

Minutes later, as housing officers tried to arrange for police support, Mrs Baxter, her daughter, and three friends emerged from the house, closed the front door behind them and walked away down the road, hurling insults at the officials and clutching another protest banner and the remaining pet dogs.

A Brunel official at the scene said they would not be adding to an earlier statement, which said the decision to evict had not been taken lightly and the association had attempted to help Mrs Baxter pay off her debts since 2003.

The statement added: "We work closely with our tenants when they are experiencing problems in paying their rent. However, we cannot continue to allow other customers who do pay their rent to subsidise customers such as Mrs Baxter who have persistently failed to make rent payments in spite of our best efforts to help."

Robert depends on dialysis treatment and is awaiting a kidney transplant after he suffered 95 per cent burns to his body in an horrific fire as a child.

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