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Elly Blake

Leyton landlord fined £50,000 for ‘atrocious’ rodent infested housing

The property on Vicarage Road in Leyton

(Picture: Waltham Forest Council)

A “duplicitous” landlord who left his tenants living in rodent infested conditions has been fined more than £50,000 in a prosecution brought by Waltham Forest council.

A court heard how Arbab Ahmed, of Eastern Avenue in Ilford, allowed his tenants to live in “atrocious conditions” with people “sleeping next to rodent droppings”.

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