The Oxford Mail has reported that Oxford City Council enabled a slum landlord to be given a lighter sentence because it failed to inform magistrates he had previous convictions.

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Imran Hussain Ali, 34, of Cowley Road, was given credit for his “previous good character” when he was sentenced for nine offences under the Housing Act at Oxford Magistrates’ Court late last month.

But the council’s prosecution team did not say he had been convicted of similar offences three months before.

Ali was originally fined £9,266 in December after pleading guilty to 11 offences under the Housing Act 2004.

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