By Gavin Mackintosh-
An ex page 3 model of The UK Sun Newspaper has been evicted from her property in Southend over allegations that her home was used for drug dealing.
58 year old Paula Meek was a model in the 70’s who won the Epping Forest competition and worked along side the likes of Rony O’Sullivan and the snooker people. She was also a page 3 girl for The Sun Newspaper in the 70’s and 80’s. Ms Meek modelled for The Sun for 15 years. A long time friend of Vicki Mischelle from British comedy series , ”Allo Allo”, Paula Meek finds herself homeless, after decades of the high life as a successful young model.
Pictures of her youth and family remain in the property she was forced out of after being losing a court case for which she presented limited opposition by not being present.
In December 2017, Ms Meek was informed that she would loose her property housed by Estuary Housing in Essex because their security staff had allegedly seen people coming in and out of the property, and used their body cam to record it. Ms Meek contest the decision to evict her because no evidence of drugs or drug dealing was found on the two occasions Essex police raided her property, but cops maintain that known drug dealers were seen in or leaving her property on the occasions they raided her property.
A court hearing was set on the 5th of December, 2017, but Ms Meek was forced to leave the proceedings in the middle of it, citing illness. She called for an ambulance, but left before one arrived, making the court sceptical of her position and insisting on the eviction as ruled. Ms Meek was given until 12 noon on Monday to leave her property at the Kursaal Estate, but was found sleeping when Estuary officials arrived to execute the order. She was forced out and her former flat boarded up by the Estuary Housing Association, who house tenants in the area and have stringent expectations of their general conduct. Meek, who suffers from bipolar is registered as a vulnerable woman, and claimed to have been under duress when her home was occupied by people who were accommodated in her property in 2017.
A letter from PC Greenway of Essex Police read: ”Paula needs to be housed out of the immediate Southend area as her cohort of associates are known drug users”. It added : Paula is at risk of being cuckooed again”. Ms Meek is currently living rough and without consistent accommodation but fears she will now loose all her belongings at the property. Asked why she took so long to evacuate her belongings from the building, Meek told the eye of media.com ” I have not been very well, I have just about been struggling from day to day. I am suffering from depression, have had a lot go wrong.
Last year, the former had four cars to the tune of £8,000 stolen from her by associates who either borrowed her car or took the keys without her permission. Essex police arrested a male acquaintance found driving her SAAB convertible in September after he refused to stop and eventually smashed the car against a wall. She was too upset to detail the events that led to the other three cars being stolen from her. On Monday, The Eye Of Media.Com contacted Estuary Housing for comment, but the Housing Association insisted on authorisation from the tenant before disclosing any information, claiming all information constituted ”private” information between them and the tenant.
After we communicated their requirement to Ms Meek, the tenant gave the required authorisation, but Estuary Housing refused to discuss the matter with us, saying they would not comment on such matters. Their spokesperson, Joan Jones, conceded that the Housing Association needs a consistent and uniform policy with respect dealing with the media. She said ” all staff will be told that we don’t discuss matters between the tenant and ourselves as their landlords because they are private between the tenant and the landlord”. No privacy issue arises once a tenant provides the required authorisation, in which respect we conclude Estuary Housing to be acting unprofessionally to some extent.
Ms Meek says she has asked Estuary Housing for more time to collect her belongings but was told she ”has had all week” to do so. The Housing Association are correct, but must not be seen to arrogate her belongings for themselves, especially those worth money. The Eye Of Media.Com will be writing to the Housing Associate tomorrow to make arrangements for the depressed woman to obtain her most valuable belongings, since the main right given to them by the courts is to repossess the property, but not unfairly deprive her of her precious belongings for carelessness sake. Missing the deadline to evacuate the property is not sufficient reason not to make alternative arrangements for her belongings to be made available to her . Ms Meek seems to have slow in appreciating the seriousness of the court ruling for her to leave today or may have been genuinely crippled by her depression. However, her right to her property cannot be denied.
The former model is seeking counseling for depression and to address her bipolar.