NEIGHBOURS, friends and campaigners held a solidarity vigil outside Barnet Homes yesterday for a domestic violence victim who has been told she must live just a few doors down from her abuser’s family. Jennifer — the Star was asked to withhold her surname — was left with nowhere to go yesterday when the housing firm, owned by Barnet Council, refused to find her a home outside of her abuser’s postcode area. After being evicted from the soon to be demolished Sweets Way estate, she was transferred with her two children to a property close to her former husband’s family.

But when she asked Barnet Homes to find her a home away from her violent ex, the council refused to help — arguing the last threats she had been subjected to were online and thus “not related to [living] areas.”

A large group mostly composed of women blockaded the entrance to the building for almost five hours highlighting the council’s neglect for the vulnerable family.