A WOMAN and her three daughters could be ‘forced to live on the streets’ after being warned by the Housing Department that they must be out of their Mahaut Gardens property by Saturday week. A recent feud with neighbours ended with Janice Carre, 42, being convicted of harassment of another female and fined £200 in the Magistrate’s Court.

Housing has now issued a notice to quit, citing a breach of tenancy conditions, and warned her she must be out of the property by Saturday 19 January or face Royal Court eviction proceedings.

But Miss Carre has vowed she will chain herself to her front door rather than be thrown out of the States home she has lived in for 12 years.

‘I feel suicidal,’ she said yesterday.

‘I don’t answer my door for days and I have kept my children off school because I have been so low. I have a heart problem as it is and I don’t believe we should be thrown out onto the streets.

‘I’m worried for my children,’ she said.

‘I can’t eat or sleep and every knock at the door I think it’s the police.’

If they are forced out, she says, they have nowhere to go.

‘The whole family will have to sleep in a car,’ she said.

‘It’s going to be unbearable and I will not end up with my kids being taken away from me for living in a car. Over my dead body.

‘The States have put a gun to my head because they know I can’t get anywhere. I’m now on the blacklist and the Housing Association don’t want to know,’ she said.

She believed the punishment was excessive.

‘It’s a living hell and I should not have to move out. I will board it all up before they make me move.

‘Your face either fits with Housing or it does not and it’s the same with the police,’ she said.

She is not working and is receiving supplementary benefit but fears she will never be allowed to live in a States house again.

Miss Carre requires heavy doses of medication and said yesterday that her doctor had referred her to the Castel Hospital.

Her health is due to be assessed tomorrow.

She has been looking urgently in the Guernsey Press for somewhere to live but says she has found nowhere suitable or affordable for her family.

Housing said yesterday that every tenancy agreement made it clear that anyone who breached any aspect of that might have their tenancy terminated.

Should this be the case, a notice to quit is activated and the department can seek possession in the Royal Court should the notice expire without the tenant vacating the property, it said.

It is understood Miss Carre has rent arrears of £536.14 and maintenance arrears of £115.76.

She denied Housing’s claims in a letter that she had been warned previously that her tenancy was at risk if she did not comply with its conditions.

Her daughters are aged seven, 12 and 17.

* Miss Carre is appealing for anybody who can help or offer advice to call her on 07781 416934.