'My son is scared. Men do strange things. There are drug needles. We can't live here any more'

'My son is scared. Men do strange things. There are drug needles. We can't live here any more'

Aimee Richards lives with her partner and two young children in a block of flats

I watch my children shrink. Shadows lurk outside. The air reeks of drugs. We cannot stay here.

Aimee Richards, a 23-year-old mother of two young children, is urgently seeking to leave her council flat in Swansea’s Weig Gardens, citing persistent anti-social behaviour that she says makes the environment unsuitable for raising her family. She described disturbing incidents caught on security cameras, including a man in boxer shorts making strange noises near her flat and a woman in a dressing gown repeatedly rummaging through communal bins,…