Petition to get a home for SAS hero Bob Curry approaches 225,000 signatures
A PETITION for a SAS hero to be given a helping hand after being left homeless is approaching more than 225,000 signatures.
Bob Curry, 64, was a hero during the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege but has since faced life on the streets as the council failed to house him.
with it already received almost 130,000 signatures calling on the council to do more.
Thousands of Brits signed their name, urging Herefordshire County Council to find suitable, permanent accommodation for Bob, a hero who has repeatedly put his life on the line for his country.
Just one supporter wrote: "You are a Hero Bob you, deserve better from this country."
Another added: "Surely every council has a responsibility to perfidy a home to a ex-service person who served their country."
It comes after Bob, who helped free 19 hostages in London, warned: “This can happen to any veteran.”
The hero told of his despair at facing life on the streets - broke and homeless after decades of service to his country.
“It was as if the society I had fought for all my life had turned its back on me.”
He is temporarily in a B&B, paid for by charity handouts, because his local council says it cannot find him a home.
Ex-cop Trevor Lock said the council needed to "sort" it out after Mr Curry was found to be living in a B&B after falling on hard times.
Speaking from his home this morning, the 78-year-old told The Sun Online: "I'm very sad for him.
"He was the best of the best, and is now on that level. It needs to be sorted."
Trevor is just one to throw his support behind Bob, with Col Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, saying: “He should go to the front of the queue for council housing right now.
“He’s risked his life for this country — given a huge amount to defending her citizens.”
Bob is temporarily in a B&B, paid for by charity handouts, because his local council says it cannot find him a home.
Herefordshire County Council told him in November to fill in forms for a council house to see if he fitted criteria. He is still waiting.
The only place they could offer was a hostel containing ex-crooks, drug addicts and people with mental problems.
But Bob could only cope there for two nights. He said: “I was sleeping on a sofa in my daughter’s rental house for all of December.”
He swallowed his pride and asked the Royal British Legion and SAS Regimental Association. if they could help.
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They found B&B accommodation in Hereford but only for 28 days. Bob joined the Army as a boy soldier aged 15½ in 1968 before joining the SAS in 1979.
The Sun Online contacted Herefordshire county council today but they maintained their response the same.
They said: "We are continuing to work with the individual to help them secure appropriate housing."