City of York Council has secured a two-year suspended possession against the tenant of one of its flats after she subjected her neighbours to months of anti-social behaviour.

The order means that Anna Rainton ( 22), who has been the tenant of a property on Sowerby Road in  Acomb since November 2004, faces eviction if she and her visitors breach the terms of her tenancy agreement again during the next two years.

York magistrates recently heard that Miss Rainton's tenancy had been trouble-free up until June 2006, when it became a focus of anti-social behaviour in the area. Large numbers of youths began frequenting the property and making neighbours' lives a misery with their loud music and all-night parties. These parties regularly spilled out of the house into communal areas

Neighbours were also subjected to obscene language, and cans and bottles being thrown around the area, as well as Miss Rainton's visitors urinating in the shared garage area. 

During four months of mayhem, Miss Rainton was served with a noise abatement notice, which she breached.  As a result of this, council officers and police entered her home and confiscated her sound system.  Miss Rainton was later interviewed by the council's environmental protection officers and accepted a formal caution.

In court Miss Rainton apologised to neighbours for the nuisance she had caused them.

A City of York Council spokesperson said: "Miss Rainton has come very close to losing her tenancy.  If she breaches the conditions of the suspended possession order, she will lose her tenancy because the council will not hesitate to return to court to have her evicted.

"Tenants are responsible for their own behaviour, as well as that of their household and visitors.  The council will always act to protect other people living in the area from having to put up with anti-social behaviour from other tenants and their visitors."