Herringthorpe Pensioner Forced To House Refugees
2016-12-01
When Doris Evans (85) from Herringthorpe left home to play Bingo last month, she didn’t quite get the full house she was hoping for. She came away from her weekly trip to Gala Bingo in Dalton empty handed, but arrived home to find six Somalian refugees sitting on her sofa. Doris, who lost her husband Frank in a freak food blending accident three years ago, didn’t know what was going on.
“It was a bit of a shock at first” she told us “They don’t speak any English and my Somalian is a bit rusty so I rang the council to see what was happening. It turns out that every EU country has agreed to take a certain number of refugees and Rotherham council have decided to house their allocation with existing council tenants who live on their own. It’s a bit of a cheek, especially as they just gave them a key, but what can you do?”
Our enquiries with the local council revealed that Doris is far from alone. Over 50 Rotherham widows now have refugees sleeping in their spare rooms, sometimes three to a bed. In return for board and lodgings, the refugees are expected to help with domestic chores, gardening and provide some basic sexual services if their new elderly companions are up to it.
“I’m well past that,” laughed Doris “but they’re useful for doing the dishes. They’re alright really, but I did feel sorry for them the other day when they had a trip out to Barnsley. I know they’re from a lawless east African war zone, and there are six of them, but I thought they were going to shit themselves.”
