A gran who was forcefully evicted from her flat before the Commonweath Games is suing a housing association for fuel costs during a battle to remain in her home.

Margaret Jaconelli, 57, has taken Thenue Housing Association to court in her latest legal battle over fuel bills.

Her family were left as the only occupants in the Ardenlea Street tenement flat in Dalmarnock, Glasgow, in December 2002.

When her upstairs neighbour moved out and the housing association put a metal grill over the windows and removed the panes. she claims she noticed a big change in her cost.

She claims she had her gas fire “on 24 hours a day”.

The mum told Glasgow Sheriff Court: "We had to keep the house warm, because we were the only ones there it was cold."

She told the court she was flooded on two occasions and the first time they got access with plumbers to the flat above, she was shocked to see the windows had been removed.

The witness said "I couldn't believe someone could be so malicious, that someone could take the windows out.

The housing association admit that the windows were removed when the metal went on and it was suggested to Mrs Jaconelli that was as a "safeguard".

But, architectural witness Dr Stirling Howieson said: "It appears this has been a tactic employed to make life difficult and expensive to your client."

The hearing will continue at a later date.