DAD I SAVED FROM DEATH ROW IS EVICTING ME

A FATHER whose daughter saved him from being executed in the Philippines has repaid her devotion - by trying to evict her from the family home.

Albert Wilson, 51, spent four years on Death Row after being sentenced to death by lethal injection for allegedly raping his 12- year-old step-daughter.

But after a tearful reunion with daughter Denise last December when she succeeded in getting his conviction quashed, the former cabbie has now served an eviction notice on her.

Denise, 26, claims he wants to move her and her three young sons and partner out of the pounds 50,000 semi so that he and his 38-year- old Filipino girlfriend, Vicky Delistan, can move in.

Last night tearful Denise said: "I hate my father now. I helped save his life and won him freedom, and this is the way he repays me."

Denise, who spent four years campaigning to save her father, finally won backing from the Foreign Office and persuaded court officials that he had been set up by his alleged victim's Filipino family.

She says that her father gave her the home in Dover, Kent, when he left Britain to start a new life abroad in 1990, but he denies making the arrangement.

When Mr Wilson returned to Britain just before Christmas he praised his daughter for her hard work.

"I was so happy, and so were the children," said Denise. "But when he came to the house one of the first things he wanted to know was when I was going to get out.

"He said it was his house and he wanted me and the children out so he could move in with his girlfriend."

Denise lives in the three-bedroom house with sons Corey, six, Jordan, three, and Tyler, 17 months, and 25-year-old partner Lee Russell. She added: "I told my father I would not move out and reminded him that he had given it to me. Later he said he would take legal action if I didn't get out. I was so distressed I told him to go ahead."

But Denise did not believe he meant it...until she was summoned to Dover County Court and her father served her with an eviction order.

During the hearing he only referred to his daughter as "Miss Wilson".

The case was adjourned until July and Denise and her father were told to seek legal advice.

Denise said: "I wanted to cry and ask him to be my friend and father again, but now I am determined to beat him at his own game."

Last night Mr Wilson refused to comment.

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