“I’ve found the makings of heroin, leftover needles, dog and human excrement outside my flat,” she said.
“One of my neighbours in her 60s, she was terrified to leave her flat because people were blocking the entrance. “I had to go and have a go, putting myself in harm's way and I’m quite old really.
“If someone decided to attack me, I would be a goner. It’s frightening.”
Resident Gillian Dickinson at Ebenezer Place where she and other residents are fed up with drug dealers and drug users hanging around the flats and the stairwells. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY