A MOTHER says her four-year-old daughter is afraid to leave their home because of “repeated” incidents where drug users are found collapsed in the common close, yards from her front door.

Siobhan Murray said in the most recent incident, late on Friday night, police were called after a man was discovered on the stairwell with his trousers pulled down and “needles sticking into his groin.”

Shettleston Housing Association said is was “concerned” by the incident and said housing officers are working with police to establish how the man had gained access to the close, which has a secure entry system.

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Siobhan said her daughters, Cassidy, four and Carly, two, had witnessed incidents at the block of flats on Shettleston Road and are now nervous about leaving their home. The mother-of-two who works in a local cafe has now asked to be re-homed.

She said: “The police removed him and 20 minutes later he was back in the close.

“My daughter won’t leave the house, in case there is somebody there. It’s happening right at my door. The back court is full of needles.”

A police spokesman said officers were called on Friday at around 11.30pm and said it was monitoring the situation.

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Tony Teasdale, Chief Executive of Shettleston Housing Association said: “We received a complaint towards the back end of last week, we we followed up with the police and we will continue to liaise with the police.

“It may be an issue with tenants letting people into the close.

“To suggest we have received many complaints and from a number of residents is the not the picture.

“We want to ensure our tenants live in a safe environment, problems like this do occur from time to time.

“We would be very keen to speak to the tenant in question. “

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A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: “We were called at 11.30pm on Friday. We checked the man was safe and advice was given.”

It comes after the Evening Times revealed last week how drugs dubbed 'street blues' are flooding the market and have caused around three deaths a week since the start of December.

The Etizolam pills have been present in toxicology reports in 85 per cent of drug related deaths.

The drug is most commonly found with illegal opiates like heroin or prescribed methadone.

Drug deaths in Glasgow have increased for the first ten months of last year by 43 per cent which will take it above 250 deaths.

In 2017 there were 192 drug deaths in the city and in 121 of them Benzodiazepines including the street blues were present.

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