A family who wreaked havoc across New Zealand in 2019 and were later deported have reportedly been ordered by an English council to shut down their makeshift caravan park.
The Doran family visited our shores in early 2019, and while here, vandalised hotels, stole Red Bulls from petrol stations, were banned from every Burger King in New Zealand and dumped rubbish and empty alcohol bottles on Auckland’s Takapuna Beach.
Then-Auckland mayor Phil Goff dubbed the family as “worse than pigs” and a “pack of a***holes”.
More than 10,000 people signed a petition to get the family kicked out of the country, with Immigration NZ eventually serving them a deportation notice.
Now, UK media are reporting the Dorans had been forced to shut down a caravan park they allegedly illegally developed in England.
The Daily Mail reported that Patrick Doran — who now goes by the name Alan Gray — purchased the Stickney Showground in Lincolnshire in 2023 and began converting a three-acre grazing field into a makeshift traveller site.
In February, East Lindsey District Council refused planning permission and issued an enforcement notice requiring the demolition of unauthorised brick structures and restoration of the land. The Planning Inspectorate upheld the decision, citing flood risks that posed a danger to life, the Daily Mail reported.
The Dorans were given 12 months to vacate the site and 15 months to return it to its original state.
Local residents had accused the group of anti-social and threatening behaviour, though Doran has denied the claims.
One woman, identified as a family member, told the Daily Mail they felt vilified, saying, “They think they can sweep us under the carpet”.
Another man reportedly warned a Daily Mail reporter of “trouble” if they returned to the site.
