Blind veterans' lives being damaged by evictions, says former charity boss
Tenants at the Linburn estate in West Lothian were told by landlord Sight Scotland Veterans last June that they had a year to vacate their homes.
When the charity announced plans for Linburn's sale, there were 16 tenants.
It says there are now 10 remaining on the estate.
One of them is ex-special forces paratrooper Pete Congaghan.
Aged 62, he is a former staff sergeant in 1 PARA who served in the first Gulf War as well as in Sierra Leone and Kosovo.
Five years after leaving the forces, he suffered a blood clot in his brain that affected his sight as well as his mobility.
Since 2017, Conaghan has lived in one of the site's purpose-built bungalows for visually-impaired tenants but said he was told last June that he would have to leave.
Since then, he said, there had been a "lack of clarity".
"It's crazy, so stressful. Nothing is in black and white.
"That is a massive difficulty for me and, I imagine, for other residents.
"They don't know from one day to the next whether they are coming or going. It's no way to live."
