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Blind veterans’ lives being damaged by evictions, says former charity boss

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When the charity announced plans for Linburn’s sale, there were 16 tenants.

It says there are now 10 remaining on the estate.

One of them is ex-special forces paratrooper Pete Congaghan.

Aged 62, he is a former staff sergeant in 1 PARA who served in the first Gulf War as well as in Sierra Leone and Kosovo.

Five years after leaving the forces, he suffered a blood clot in his brain that affected his sight as well as his mobility.

Since 2017, Conaghan has lived in one of the site’s purpose-built bungalows for visually-impaired tenants but said he was told last June that he would have to leave.

Since then, he said, there had been a “lack of clarity”.

“It would be apparent to anyone that I haven’t got a clue what is going on,” he told the BBC.

“It’s crazy, so stressful. Nothing is in black and white.

“That is a massive difficulty for me and, I imagine, for other residents.

“They don’t know from one day to the next whether they are coming or going. It’s no way to live.”


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