There has been yet another delay in the sentencing of a letting agent who has already pleaded guilty to three charges of engaging in unfair commercial practices.
This week Helen Gregory, 55, was due to be sentenced at Derby Crown Court but the case was adjounred until April 29.
Last October Gregory, a former director of Beechwood Property Portfolio, was due to be sentenced in Derby Crown Court on Friday, but it was then deferred - twice - until this week.
Letting Agent Today has regularly reported on Gregory, who was charged back in 2013 with fraud after a court case brought by the Matlock and Chesterfield trading standards office revealed that she allegedly kept tenants' monies which should have been paid into the Deposit Protection Service.
In November 2012 Beechwood landlords and tenants contacted local journalists after failing to track down Gregory.
She was subsequently charged with three counts of fraud relating to three separate companies: Beechwood Lettings LTD, between 1 April 2007 and 30 November 2009; Beechwood Property Portfolio LTD, between 31 May 2007 and 19 October 2012; and Letzlet Ltd between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2012.
Gregory later entered a guilty plea to three charges of engaging in unfair commercial practices. In spring 2012 Estate Agent Today reported that The Property Ombudsman had expelled Letzlet Ltd - trading as Beechwood Lettings - after it failed to pay an award made against it.
Letzlet had failed to pay an award of £1,226, which included £976 in rent owing, and had delayed paying rent into the complainant landlord's account on 12 occasions over a period of 19 months. It failed to co-operate with the Ombudsman's investigation and also breached the TPO Code of Practice by not having a complaints system in place.
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