News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members other artilces from the June / July 2002 issue RPI news archive

'Liar' landlord condemned - June / July 2002

Lies to a fatal accident inquiry have landed Glasgow landlord Harpal Singh in jail.

Singh had told the inquiry into the deaths of two young students at one of his properties that there had been a working smoke alarm in their basement bedsit. But fire inspectors ­ and members of the victims' families refuted his claims.

When sentencing Singh to two and a half years in jail, Sheriff Kenneth Maciver said his lies had 'unnecessarily drawn out the suffering of the families of the former school friends'.

Singh had been warned a number of times not to lie to the inquiry. But, said the Sheriff, the number of times he had claimed that the flat had a working smoke alarm 'must have run into double figures', even though fire investigators had found overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
 

other artilces from the June / July 2002 issue

• Accredited to thrive
• Shelter group calls for landlord tax breaks
• Rat landlord fined
• Lancaster survey excludes landlord involvement
• Tax fiddle landlords jailed
• 'Liar' landlord condemned
• 'Flood of properties' hits rental values
• HMO failure brings fine
• In brief