Mum and seven children still need a home

She claims that if the family were refugees they would be overwhelmed with help.

Now she is calling on Bexhill and Battle MP Greg Barker to come to the rescue.

Mother of two, Jane Schubert, 48, who works from home as an aromatherapist(reflexologist, says her own livelihood is threatened as her tiny three-bedroomed home is too crowded to let clients use it.

Jane took in Gaynor Coleman, 35, and her children aged one to 12 in September when Gaynor found herself at the mercy of a sex pest.

The man repeatedly pestered her for sex after Gaynor s partner deserted her and the children for her sister.

She was left in a privately rented house with broken windows in Maidstone.

Jane let Gaynor and the seven children move into her home in Crowmere Avenue, Bexhill, which she shares with her two adult sons.

Despite pleas to Rother council to rehouse them, the Coleman family is still there.

Jane said: "If Gaynor had been a Kosovan woman with seven children people would have been calling round with food parcels and offers of help. She would be re-housed by now.

"I m not racist and feel very sorry for the plight of Kosovans and all refugees. But Gaynor is desperate, too, and she needs help as much as any refugee.

"Just because she is English she should not be penalised in her own country."

A council spokesman said on Tuesday: "We cannot discuss individual cases and until the appeal is heard, hopefully this month, we cannot comment further."

MP Greg Barker was unavailable for comment.