A mum with stage 4 cancer claims she was “humiliated” after being evicted from her home by High Court enforcement officers over an unpaid tax bill.

Sheena Williams, of Plains Avenue in Maidstone, says she was left outside in the cold until the early hours of the morning after she was forced to leave the property.

Video footage obtained by MailOnline shows about 10 security and enforcement officers (HCEOs) surrounding her home on Monday while police officers watch on.

It also shows her front door being smashed in by the HCEOs as they force entry into the home, which had been visited by an ambulance crew earlier in the day.

Speaking to MailOnline on Thursday, Ms Williams said: “The paramedics had shut the door and the bailiff tried to push it open.

“They told him I was entitled to privacy but he was up by my bed. I told him to stop looking at me and get round the corner.

“He was trying to push his way in when I was having an ECG and I had no clothes on.

“He had no right to be there, none whatsoever. It shouldn't happen. None of this should be happening like this.

“They really don't care if they hurt you. They would've dragged me onto to the street naked if they could, to humiliate me.”

Ms Williams, who is a mum-of-three, has metastatic cancer and is in a wheelchair.

She was told the house, which she has lived in for almost 30 years, was being repossessed due to an unpaid tax bill.

HCEOs arrived at the home at 8am on Monday and told her she needed to leave the property immediately.

Sources have claimed to MailOnline the debt is “worth tens of thousands of pounds”, but Ms Williams says it is considerably less.

She also says Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) transferred the debt into her name and subsequently “unlawfully” made her bankrupt in 2016.

Her partner of 26 years, former Tovil parish councillor John Hicks, rang an ambulance over concerns for her health and paramedics confirmed they attended an address on the day.

Kent Police attended the home at about 9.10am to make sure there was no breach of the peace after receiving a report of a disturbance.

The force said it was satisfied the eviction was carried out lawfully.

The couple refused to leave their home and sat on the driveway until the early hours of the morning.

“We sat there like fools. We were so traumatised...”

However, Mr Hicks eventually drove them to a family friend's house after the temperature dropped. They have been staying there ever since.

Ms Williams told MailOnline: “We sat there like fools, I was just in a wheelchair waiting.

“We were outside until about 4.20am. John managed to get me into his van, which was absolutely excruciating. We were so traumatised.”

Ms Williams, who served as a councillor on MBC for three-and-a-half years in 2006, claims the repossession is the result of a 15-year battle with the council over an unpaid council tax bill in John's name.

She says the bill, which dates to 2009, was paid back by the father-of-three in 2015. The couple say they have been back and forth to court trying to fight the bankruptcy application.

She added: “MBC had bankrupted me in 2016 and everything escalated from that.”

The couple also believe it was unlawful for the HCEOs to force entry to Ms Williams’ house which John has lived in since 2001.

It has been suggested Ms Williams was first evicted from the property in 2019, but regained access a couple weeks later.

No HCEOs had since attended her home until the recent eviction this month.

Ms Williams said: “I won't let them take my house off me. At the end of the day none of it adds up.

“We would like to take this to the crown court because at least we would have a jury and it wouldn't be so secretive.

“But it's not just happening to us. There will be lots of people out there that don't understand their rights.

“It worries me that they might be doing it to vulnerable elderly people.

“We want to stop this from happening to somebody else.”

Speaking to MailOnline, Michael Goldstein of insolvency firm RG Insolvency, who was appointed trustees of the debt, says everything which was done was on “solid legal ground”.

He added that the situation could have “potentially been different” after claiming Ms Williams did not at any point provide any documentation to show that she was unwell.

“We have done absolutely everything absolutely lawfully and absolutely correctly and proper...”

He said: “We have done absolutely everything absolutely lawfully and absolutely correctly and proper.

“There was nothing more than we could have done to bring a swift and easy resolution to proceedings.”

The property will now be sold with the money going towards paying off the debt.

MBC refused to comment.