A landlord has to pay almost £19,000 after being convicted of 15 offences including one of letting out a mouse-infested house to tenants.
Abdul Rashid Warishaully allegedly rented out a property in Ilford to nine residents including two children - one only 18 months old - but did not comply with an Emergency Prohibition Order last September.
It had been issued by the council's housing standards officers, planning enforcement and local police, who jointly discovered that the property had no fire alarm system, unprotected escape routes, obstructed fire escapes, defective electrical installation, a mouse infestation and missing guarding to the staircase.
Despite this, the landlord reconnected the unsafe electrics and continued to rent out the property.
Warishaully has now been found guilty of 15 offences including housing management offences, breaches of the Emergency Prohibition Order, failing to license a House in Multiple Occupation and failing to provide the council with copies of safety certificates.
He was fined £16,000 plus costs of £2,794 and a victim surcharge of £120 .
Ilford councillor Muhammed Javed says the conditions were truly appalling and placed the tenants' safety at considerable risk.
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Well - I have to agree with you "John Smith". Again we must be politically correct and not cast aspersions but it is rather coincidental that the names of such offenders on this web-site and many others involved in such issues match your description.
In this politically correct world im guessing a comment suggesting that people whos origins are from other areas of the world are perhaps given additional directions on the laws and acceptability of residential housing, as I am never suprised to see the names linked to these stories in the vast majority of serious cases....