A DEFENDANT found herself under arrest and in custody after she was evicted from her home, putting her in breach of her bail conditions.

Taylor Croft was supposed to be living at a house in Deerhurst Way where she was under a nightly curfew.

But when they turned up on her doorstep last weekend police had no idea she’d had to move to her daughter’s home in The Prinnells.Swindon magistrates heard Croft, 42, was due to appear in the Crown Court tomorrow having admitted robbing the Coral bookmakers in Victoria Road.

“She admits breaching it by moving to live with her daughter,” said prosecutor Michelle Hewitt.

Gordon Hotson, defending, explained: “Until last week she was compliant with these conditions. But last week she was evicted from her property. “The circumstances of her eviction would appear themselves to amount to a criminal offence against Miss Croft. She has been evicted by her landlord without due process or court order, which is an offence.”

He said she contacted the monitoring service and was told by them to take the monitoring box with her when she moved into her daughter’s home.

Croft did as she was told and plugged it back in when she got there. It had been working ever since, said Mr Hotson.

The firm advised her to contact the court with her new address and she contacted her solicitor who wrote to the court asking for her bail conditions to be varied.

However before the application could be heard the police turned up at her former address during the curfew hours and found she was no longer there. As a result she was arrested.

“She could not have done any more,” he said. “She has done absolutely everything that both the law and common sense would require her to do.”

The bench decided to grant her bail again on the same conditions, but to live and be under curfew at Walter Close until the crown court hearing.