Former hotel owner evicted after eight year saga
The former owner of the Glen Affric Hotel has finally being evicted from the building she had called home for the past 13 years.
Louise Hodgson had continued to live in the dilapidated premises for eight years after being sequestrated for unpaid council tax and business rates.
The 52-year-old turned down emergency council homeless accommodation in Muir of Ord, saying it would be useless as she needed to live near friends and the stables where she helps out.
Two sheriff officers from Inverness arrived to serve the eviction order, accompanied by two police officers and an inspector from the Scottish SPCA. Only two villagers turned out to support her before the building was boarded up by contractors, leaving a gap for Ms Hodgson’s remaining 10 cats to get access until they can be captured and rehomed.
For the past eight years the former science teacher’s estate has been trust to The Accountant in Bankruptcy, the government organisation administering personal bankruptcy and recording corporate insolvencies in Scotland. A decree to eject Ms Hodgson from the hotel was granted to the agency at Inverness Sheriff Court last month with it arguing she was squatting and had no right or title to continue to be there.
The former hotel had no running water or heating with Ms Hodgson using one electric kettle and one light and a watering can to shower. She lived alone with only her semi-feral cats for company.
