Dawn raid discovers 11 people crammed into Wembley house

Brent’s Housing Enforcement Team found tenants sleeping in every room, except the kitchen and bathroom, and were shocked to find a polystyrene ceiling giving way inside the kitchen, no fire safety doors and no fire alarm system.

Damp and black mould also covered the walls and ceilings making it difficult for people to breathe normally.

The 11 tenants were paying the crooked landlord over £2,000 to live in the property’s squalid conditions. The home is also not licensed.

Cllr Promise Knight, Cabinet Member for Housing, Homelessness and Renters’ Security, said: “It is shocking and horrifying that rogue landlords make a profit from keeping people in dangerous and slum-like conditions like this. Rogue landlords who exploit their tenants’ vulnerability will find themselves facing hefty fines and possibly a criminal conviction.”