With three of his five daughters with him, making the 880 mile round-trip from South Wales, Vince Shalom, attended the HBOS event with only one purpose in mind, to present another ‘family appeal for help’ to the banking giant.


HBOS Plc has a long established and unbroken association with the Crest Nicholson Brand. The bank has been kept informed of the entire situation, even since before the actual eviction took place. The eviction, seizure and total destruction of the perfectly safe and satisfactory Family home were always avoidable. This is fact, it was not an accident!


However, the Family maintains the view that the whole situation was orchestrated, highly immoral, and therefore the company remains totally responsible for their losses to date. John Callcutt CBE was Chief Executive of the Crest Nicholson Plc Group at the time of the eviction and previously responsible for enforcing health and safety.


Without a healthy, ‘enabling’ option presently available for the Family of 7, the four and a half year old eviction saga continues, even under the new ownership of Sir Tom Hunter, Castle Bidco and Bank of Scotland.


Crest Nicholson apparently prefer to stay silent on the issue, but never oppose for a second, that it was their direct negligence which caused the Family Home to suffer a night time grounding accident, whilst it was at their Penarth Marina in Cardiff Bay, Wales.


This ‘accident’ proved itself to be the ‘trigger’ for the company to ‘get-rid-by-any-means’ – of the Shalom Family’s dream home of 14 years. It also signalled the end of ‘houseboats’ in Crest Nicholson Marinas, as a ban was immediately imposed - UK-wide. Coupled with an ongoing beauty show, a full scale eviction was callously prosecuted, and the family home and all their possessions were seized.


Instead of a simple repair being allowed to be undertaken by the Shaloms after the Crest Nicholson caused grounding, and within the Penarth Marina, Houseboat Picton now lays in ruins, following its 22 miles eviction journey, across the Bristol Channel, at a private boat yard facility on the River Avon in Shirehampton England.  http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.485653,-2.6869432&z=18&t=h&hl=en-GB

The Family ask Sir Tom Hunter for his help on their website. Nothing has yet been returned. No compensation or genuine help of any kind is presently offered. Ross Keany, Press Officer for HBOS refused to comment on the situation.

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The Herald HBOS AGM PLC ‘Houseboat Among Other Complaints at AGM’

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