GRANDMOTHER at the centre of a Commonwealth Games land battle has been evicted from her home in a dawn raid.

GRANDMOTHER at the centre of a Commonwealth Games land battle has been evicted from her home in a dawn raid.
Margaret Jaconelli's two-bedroom flat is on the site for the proposed athletes' village for the 2014 sporting extravaganza in Glasgow.

Mrs Jaconelli and her husband Jack, both 52, were ordered to leave last Thursday following a court ruling but remained in the property on Ardenlea Street in Dalmarnock.

Labour-run Glasgow City Council was granted a compulsory purchase order for the home following a long-running dispute over its value and offers of compensation for the Jaconellis.

There had been several previous attempts to evict the Jaconellis from the barricaded property during an increasingly tense seven day stand-off.

Much of the area surrounding the street is a building site and the vacated flats have their windows boarded up.

Around 60 police officers arrived at the site at about 5am this morning and followed an hour later by a team of sheriff officers.
The eviction took just over two hours with the couple, who had been in the property with other family members, including young children, leaving voluntarily about 07.20am.

As they were taken out the couple said they were disgusted with the way the council had treated them and claimed they were walking away from their home of 35 years with nothing.

Mrs Jaconelli, who plans to run as an independent candidate in May's Holyrood elections, added: "The fight goes on."