Two landlords from Leatherhead were prosecuted and fined after a 13-year-old boy died following a fire at a house last year.
Landlords Innocent and Clementia Mukarati pleaded guilty at Croydon Magistrates’ Court to one charge of failing to license the property in Camden Gardens under section 95 of the Housing Act 2004.
The pair were ordered by the judge to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working smoke alarms.
The court was told that the illegally-let house did not have a Croydon Council landlord licence, which includes fire safety checks.
