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NewsRonald Botterill, 63, is among the homeless people living thereleicestermercuryThe residents of a small group of tents on a lawn between St Margaret's Church and Leicester's inner ring road fear they are going to be evicted tomorrow from their encampment. Ronald Botterill, 63, and his partner Sonja are among six or seven people currently living in the illegal camp, which is made up of three lived-in tents and two collapsed, abandoned tents. Ronald, who said he was kicked out of his previous home in Vestry House - a block of flats in the city centre previously highlighted as a crime and drug hotspot - told LeicestershireLive that Leicester City Council had applied to the courts to get them evicted and that he expected it to happen Friday, October 6. He said: "There's me and my missus - we've been here eight months - and then in the other two tents there are four or five others. "They arrived just after us but we don't speak to them. I don't know where they're from or if they speak English." READ MORE: Council tenant kicked out over 'drug-related anti-social behaviour' which left neighbours intimidated The 63-year-old said he didn't know where he and Sonja would go after the eviction. He said: "They said they're going to kick us off here and that it would happen some time on Friday. I don't know where we're going to go." An area of wasteland just across the ring road, next to St Margaret's Bus Station, was one of the couple's next options. "It's horrible living like this. If I'm still camping in the winter I worry I might not survive if it gets cold," Ronald said. Ronald was evicted from his housing association flat in Vestry House by a court order. His flat was being used for drug dealing and prostitution but he claimed he had no control over the illegal activity going on in his flat. He said: "I was cuckooed. The person doing all that left and there were never any drugs in the flat after that - or anything else illegal - but they got me evicted. The city council have offered me a place in the Dawn Centre (a service offering temporary accommodation for homeless people) but I've refused to go there - I don't want to be killed." Ronald, who has lived in Leicester all his life, is also angry about the way he was evicted from Vestry House, with possessions he could not take with him being removed from the flat. He believes he's lost them forever. He said: "They took my stuff from the flat and to me that's burglary. I lost about £5,000 worth of stuff in total and I can't get it back - I think they just binned it all. "I don't even have any proper shoes and I'm having to go out to beg to get money." 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NewsRonald Botterill, 63, is among the homeless people living thereleicestermercuryThe residents of a small group of tents on a lawn between St Margaret's Church and Leicester's inner ring road fear they are going to be evicted tomorrow from their encampment. Ronald Botterill, 63, and his partner Sonja are among six or seven people currently living in the illegal camp, which is made up of three lived-in tents and two collapsed, abandoned tents. Ronald, who said he was kicked out of his previous home in Vestry House - a block of flats in the city centre previously highlighted as a crime and...

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