Landlord Nasar Ahmad was fined £5,700 for a filthy, damp slum – which had a ceiling on the brink of collapse (Photo on Flickr).
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Mr Ahmad was found guilty of 18 charges at Thames Magistrates’ Court for failing to discharge statutory duties as a manager of a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO), a mid-terrace two-storey house illegally converted into two flats, which is also on Boundary Road.
Shocked inspectors found tenants living in slum conditions. The property was overcrowded, damp, filthy and engrained with dirt. The ceiling in the kitchen was cracked and bulged so alarmingly it was likely to result in structural collapse, they concluded.
Ahmad was also ordered to pay Newham’s Council costs of £1,752.55 and a victim surcharge of £15.
Newham Mayor Sir Robin Wales said: “We will never accept private sector tenants being directly exploited by landlords who force them to live in dangerous and unacceptable conditions.
“Good landlords have nothing to fear. For the bad ones, we have a clear message: clean up your act or pay the price.”
“We want to ensure that private sector rented properties are well managed and meet a good standard. We also want to deal with the crime and anti-social behaviour that is sometimes associated with bad private sector rented housing.
“One bad house can drag down a whole street and we are doing this for the community.
“There are good landlords in Newham and we want to work with them. Unfortunately there are also some unscrupulous ones – and these are the ones we are targetting.”
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