A YORK woman is making a desperate plea to the city council to stop it moving her back to a former address, where she says her family was victimised.

Sally Young is currently in safe, temporary accommodation in York, after she claimed her family's life was made hell by neighbours in Ashton Avenue, Clifton.

But the mother-of-four now fears she may face the trauma of making herself voluntarily homeless if the council decides that she must return to Clifton.

Ms Young has written to York MP Hugh Bayley, setting out her fears.

Mr Bayley has since written to the council on her behalf, but Ms Young claims the City of York Council has still taken no notice of her pleas.

"There is no way I'm going back to the house where it started in the first place," she said. "I don't know why they want us to go back."

Ms Young said that Mr Bayley's letter set out her fears about going back to live in Ashton Avenue, and that she is hoping she might be relocated to a council house in Kent.

"But they are not taking any notice of what he said in the letter," she added. "I feel safer here and I'd rather leave the city than go back to where I was."

She currently lives with partner Brian West and children Tina, seven, Tanya, six, Joanne, three-and-a-half, and Sky, 17 months.

Ms Young said the victimisation in Ashton Avenue began after allegations were made, she claims falsely, against her partner Mr West.

After her partner was assaulted in the street, she went to the police and then to the council, who gave her temporary accommodation away from the area.

A spokesman for the City of York Council said: "This customer is currently being housed in temporary accommodation pending further inquiries to determine whether she is to be classed as homeless. If the outcome of those investigations is that we consider it reasonable for her to return to the property then we will ask her to do so.

"However, no decision has been made yet and any investigation and decision will be based with regard to the circumstances.

"It should also be remembered that customers do have a right to appeal over any decision."