A 58-YEAR-OLD man from Liscard has been evicted from his home for Class-A drugs offences as part of a police crackdown.

He left the private property in Lancaster Avenue under police supervision last Wednesday afternoon after an order was issued under the Misuse of Drugs Act by Wirral Magistrates.

Heroin and cocaine are thought to have been sold at the property and neighbours recalled high levels of noise caused by visitors to the house at all hours of the day and night.

One relieved neighbour said: “This has been going on for about 15 years and I think everyone will be glad to see him gone.

“He was actually a quiet man who’d say hello to you, but you’d always hear people shouting and car doors slamming outside his home at all hours. I was always looking out of my window to see what’s going on. It’s going to be good to get a bit of peace at night.”

The man is believed to be staying with a friend and under the terms of the order cannot return to his home for three months.

Liscard neighbourhood inspector Paul Parry told the Globe: “We want to be seen to be reacting to intelligence that is received from the community. It’s a clear message that offences like this will not be tolerated. This was the first private house closed on Wirral under crackhouse closure legislation. We used exactly the same enforcement procedure that would be used for tenants of Wirral Partnership Homes involved in the same sort of anti-social activity.

“The work that went into the closure goes back five months. A number of warrants under the Misuse of Drugs Act have been executed at the address in recent months.

“The property was in a reasonable state. The man was very co-operative and is believed to have gone to the home of a friend.”