An unfit' landlord has been ordered to pay over £10,000 after a council probe revealed he had left his tenants to live in overcrowded, filthy and unsafe conditions.
Ealing council officers in west London visited the landlord's house at Southall, which had been divided into six rented rooms, back in June 2012. They ordered the landlord to carry out repairs and clean up the property within two months.
When officers returned they found that not only had he failed to comply with the notice but that he had also rented out a further two rooms - which meant the property was overcrowded.
Officers also found damaged fire doors, a smoke alarm that did not work and broken windows in tenants' rooms. There was also black mould growing on the ceiling and walls of the kitchen, evidence of mice and cockroaches and filthy bathrooms.
Now Amarjit Singh Gulshan has been convicted of 11 offences and ordered to pay £6,750 in fines, another £3,353.48 to cover the council's costs for the case and a £120 victim surcharge, making a total of £10,223.48.
The council will now seek to revoke his licence to rent HMOs within the borough.
The tenants allegedly paid a combined total of around £2,100 per month in rent to Gulshan.
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