A woman has been evicted from her squalid council flat after police found nine dangerous dogs there.

The flat, at 57 College green was covered in faeces and urine after Sherilee Hobby allowed them to use almost every room as a toilet.

Mrs Hobby was finally removed from the flat after neighbours, sick of the smell and her habit of throwing the faeces out of the window, called the police.

Workmen who were called to carry out repairs at the flat even refused to go in over health fears.

The building was home to several pit-bull type animals that were being kept in rooms covered with their faeces.

Police and council officers who called at the flat in April described it as “horrendous” and “appalling.”

They went there after another resident complained about rubbish and dog faeces being launched out of the windows.

Bags of dog mess were also being left on a communal landing in the building.

The flat had been run-down by the tenant and the living room was being used as a playground for two of the dogs.

There were eight puppies in one bedroom as well as a black cat.

While they were speaking to Miss Hobby one of the animals walked into the kitchen, cocked its leg against a unit and started to urinate on the floor.

Hobby told police the dogs were not hers and that she was looking after them for a friend who had recently had a baby and no longer wanted them.

Police took one of the dogs and Hobby kept the rest.

Councillor Dudley Mead, the council’s cabinet member for housing, said: “Keeping these types of animals - and in these types of conditions - is highly antisocial and distressing for people living nearby. For that reason the council takes this sort of thing extremely seriously and will always take the strongest possible action, which often results in loss of tenancy.”