A 23-year-old woman and her four children were left out in the rain Thursday afternoon.

Their landlord Mr. Neil Inchcup Sr. evicted them from their apartment, throwing all their belongings outside and leaving two pit bull terriers behind to prevent them from going in.

The angry tenant who did not want to be named said: "If my children walked in there they would have been dead.

"Inchcup has not gone through the courts to have me evicted. I feel vexed.

And my clothes are outside wet.'' She added: "This is really not even the first time this has happen, he has done this before.'' When asked if she had been falling behind in her rent payments the woman said: "This is not even my apartment it's my granny's. If Inchcup wants to do this he should go through the courts and take it from there.'' But a furious Mr. Inchcup, who also pays and operates Bermuda home television bingo said: "The woman that lives in that apartment was given the opportunity to rent that apartment from me, she failed to sign an agreement and she refused to pay rent.

"She has been living in that apartment for seven months, and she told me that she has no intention of paying me any rent.'' Mr. Inchcup added: "She hasn't paid me one penny and she said that I cannot put her out because the law will uphold her.

"But as far as I am concerned, she is a squatter and I intend to put her out because the law also thinks she is a squatter.'' A concerned citizen called the The Royal Gazette this week to report that the landlord was evicting the woman and her four young children while no one was home.

For the second time Mr. Inchcup, removed all the family's furniture, clothes etc. before locking up the one room apartment on Marsh Folly road and securing it with two pit bull terriers behind the door.

The woman who was watching all this take place said this was not Mr. Inchcup's first attempt at trying to evict the woman.

She alleged: "First he put acid on the carpet in the apartment and when that didn't work he sprayed the inside of the house with water, took the front door off and moved some of her belongings outside.'' The family still refused to move and lived in the apartment for months with only a curtain for a door.

"Now that she is at work and her four children, who are between two and five-years-old, are at school Inchcup bordered up the house and put all her furniture outside,'' the woman said.

She added: "He's (Neil Inchcup Sr.) worth millions. He could have gotten a lawyer and evicted them the proper way, by the system.

"You don't do this to people, what's junk to some people is someone else's personal belongings.'' She also said: "Inchcup has gone beyond the barriers of the law. This is a catastrophe.'' "He's a big name man and he should act in a responsible manner,'' the woman added.

Administrative officer of Magistrates' Court Mr. Tracey Kelly said: "If a landlord wishes to have a person out of his premises he must take out specific papers in the court and on a magistrate's order the bailiff can go and ensure the tenant is properly evicted.

He added: "If a landlord has not gone through those measures and has thrown a person's possessions out then that tenant should seek legal advice which may involve seeking redress through the court, which means the person can claim damages for loss of property, expenses incurred for seeking new living arrangement etc.''