A landlord has been fined £100,000 after illegally converting a Barking home into seven studio flats. Nazmul Haq, 54, converted a five-bedroom family home, which was registered as a private address, into seven flats. Mr Haq further built an illegal extension to the property. Mr Haq first had an enforcement notice issued in March 2014.
An entrepreneur said to be worth more than £200million is ‘pleading poverty,’ according to his estranged wife’s divorce lawyers. The High Court heard that Andy Ruhan’s fortune was so large ‘it’s impossible to quantify.’ The 55-year-old who once owned 37 Thistle Hotels and sat on the board of the Lotus Formula One team,
A leading divorce lawyer is campaigning for no-fault divorce and has taken her campaign directy to Conservative Party members. Ayesha Vardag, founder of London firm Vardags, pleaded her case to delegates at the party conference to lobby their MPs and bring out a change in the law. Vardag, as reported by the Law Gazette, she
A wealthy businessman claims his former “wife” is not entitled to a share in a £1.1 billion fortune as he alledges they were never legally married. Asif Aziz said he and his estranged wife Tagilde Aziz were both born abroad and obtained a “fake” marriage certificate so a child they had adopted could get a
A landlord has been fined a total of £7,298 for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation (HMO) in Oxford that was home to three people with disabilities. William Stephen Rielly was prosecuted after environmental health officers from Oxford City Council investigated a house that he owned at Nowell Road in September 2016. They
A landlord from Sheffield will be sentenced for harassing his tenants. Mark Cashin, 48, was taken to court by Sheffield City Council. Cashin pleaded guilty to two charges relating to the harassment of his tenants during a short hearing at Sheffield Crown Court. The first incident took place between Janaury 16, 2016 and February
A landlord has escaped jail after failing to have proper fire safety precautions after a man suffered life-threatening 40 per cent burns when he was trapped in his room. Warwick Crown Court heard that the victim, suffered after another resident deliberately started a fire in a Coventry multiple occupancy house. Simon Fox (55) of Common
A woman from Truro has been jailed for benefits fraud after claiming that she was single while living with her husband. Helen Salunga, 47, pleaded guilty to four counts of defrauding the Department for Work and Pensions, Cornwall Council and HM Revenue and Customs. Truro Crown Court heard that Salunga fraudulently claimed £80,506.48 in total.
An 80-year-old man has received a six-month suspended prison sentence for a £19,000 ten-year benefit fraud. However, upon further investigation about his pension credit claims, benefit officers discovered he and his wife had not claimed all the social security they were entitled to. As a result they increased their benefits. York magistrates heard that James
A mother of four falsely claimed benefits to buy a second home to get her children into a better school, Ipswich Crown Court heard. Mother-of-four Rejiya Mukith from Ipswich, obtained a mortgage for the £58,080 property in 2003, yet later used £35,000 in income support she dishonestly obtained by lying about her financial situation to