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2 weeks agoLandlord fined for dangerous and unlawful HMO
Harrow landlord fined £9,000 after unlicensed four-bedroom HMO was found with fire hazards, gas smell, missing safety certificates, and ordered vacated.
Eunice Osei is a proud, reserved woman, but give her time and she will say: I've not been treated fairly. Then she'll cry. The crime is her room, a tiny hutch crammed with a kitchenette, toilet, bed and flimsy chipboard furniture. Clothes, kitchen utensils and suitcases are stacked so high against the grimy windows that light struggles to enter. We are swathed in murk, with nowhere to sit and hardly anywhere to stand.