THE MOTHER of a seven-year-old girl who was immobilised after being knocked down on a road near to her Hanworth estate, has sent out a plea for an emergency housing transfer from her third floor flat, which she says will be impossible for her young daughter to access when she returns from hospital.

On April 14th, Anita Bruster's seven year old daughter, Charlotte Butterell, from South Road, was taken into hospital with multiple fractures, after being knocked down on the nearby Bear Road.

Charlotte is expected to be in hospital for at least a further three months, but when she emerges she will still be unable to walk and Ms Bruster is despairing at the prospect of being able to get her child in and out of her own home.

Social services have already labelled the flat, which holds Ms Bruster's other four children, Jemma(12), Michael (8), Jody(4) and Lee (2) as over-crowded, and Ms Bruster had to evict another of her sons when he turned 18 as he would otherwise have had to share a room with his sisters who are entering puberty.

Ms Bruster says that her family has already had enough trouble to cope with - she claims the Forge Lane estate has become so dangerous from the myriad threat of joyriders, drug pushers and wild teenage gangs, that without relocation, more of her children could face the same threat:

That road is very dangerous,'' she told the Times: There used to be a lolly pop lady there, and we have been asking for a zebra crossing for ages - two years ago my other son was knocked down by a school mum.

When my daughter finally comes home, I'll have to give her round the clock attention, as she won't even be able to get up the stairs - that means my other children will be in danger as this estate is thick with drugs and gangs that get the youth of the area into trouble. What am I supposed to do? I'm terrified of letting my children out of the house.''