A landlord was ordered to pay over £2,000 after pleading guilty to an unlawful eviction at Bristol Magistrates court last month. Tahir Aziz of Glen Park, Eastville, failed to provide his tenant with a rental agreement or carry out any repairs, including a major leak.
Aziz responded to the tenant’s complaints to Bristol City Council by asking him to leave the studio flat in Lawrence Hill. The tenant was not given any notice and went home during the winter shortly after the third national lockdown to find the door to his flat nailed shut leaving him homeless.
The police were contacted at this point but Aziz failed to respond to their requests to give the tenant access to the property. Aziz ignored legal advice and claimed during the investigation that he did not know the tenant despite having received rent payments.
