A landlord is facing jail after he ordered his three sons to rip the doors and windows out of the home of a heavily pregnant teenager in a dispute over rent.

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Property developer Steven Simpson, 48, took it into his own hands to evict Michaela Landless after she struggled to come up with the £500-a-month rent for the property in Cupar, Fife.

Cupar Sheriff Court was told the 18-year-old sat crying in her dressing gown as Simpson’s sons began dismantling the two-bedroom flat on October 19 last year, seven days after he served notice to evict her.

Under the law, Miss Landless, who was eight months pregnant at the time, should have had two months to comply with the order.

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