A PENSIONER lost his home yesterday because he hosted all-night parties that made his neighbours' lives a misery.

A judge watched two secretly-filmed videos of teenage partygoers flocking to 67-year-old Michael Nichols' seaside flat.

He was seen handing cans of beer from the window of his groundfloor kitchen to 14-year-olds.

Partially-deaf Nichols, who breached an Anti-Social Behaviour Order imposed last May, was given six weeks to quit the one-bedroom flat after a judge granted possession under the 1988 Housing Act.

The parties began in the summer of 2004, in Foxrush Close, Redcar.

Other residents, aged up to 85, kept diaries of their sleepless nights, said barrister Henry Trory, for landlord Coast and Country Housing.

He said: "There was loud music, shouting and swearing, and youths were drinking until 6.30am on one occasion."

Several residents called the police, and a video camera was trained on the flat, Middlesbrough County Court was told.

Nichols, who was divorced three years ago, said he tried to put a stop to it.

He said: "I went to Help The Aged but they could not help. They said that I had to call the police myself but I was too frightened."

The pensioner, who was prosecuted for noise and nuisance caused to neighbours, added: "They would have retaliated and smashed my windows.

"I was lonely, and at first I enjoyed the company, but then others came causing bother."

Nichols' barrister, Neil Smart, argued that the police and housing group should have taken action, because the pensioner's vulnerability was preyed upon by youngsters from as far as four miles away.

Recorder Felicity Davies said that 12 incidents of nuisance were found proved, adding: "The evidence abundantly demonstrates that he is either unable or unwilling - and probably a combination of both - to do anything to deflect the nuisance."