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A LANDLORD has been ordered to pay £11,000 in fines and costs after letting out a property which had deteriorated into an "appalling" condition.
Jasbir Baryah, of Fishponds Road, Eastville, admitted breaching environmental health regulations as the property fell into disrepair while up to a dozen tenants were living there.
Bristol Magistrates Court heard that when city council environmental health officers attended the property – a former care home at 183 Wells Road, Totterdown – in May last year they found 10 to 12 occupants living there.
Kate Burnham-Davies, prosecuting on behalf of the city council, said the officers found filthy conditions, a lack of lighting, mould, extreme dirt and a vast deterioration of the property, which had an unsafe structure.
She said part of the kitchen was "coated in grease", one of the bathrooms had "dark stains of faeces" and an extension "looked more like a garden shed".
"It was well below standards expected," Ms Burnham-Davies added.
When police officers attended the property, she said, "it seemed to be occupied by a large group of adults of varying ages along with children and a baby".
"Some of the occupants were found to be Bulgarian, said Ms Burnham-Davies. "One of the occupants, a Mr Nikolov, assisted officers in the inspection."
Mr Nikolov told the officers that he collected the rent and delivered it to Baryah or his accountant at his office in Clifton.
Baryah admitted renting the property to Mr Nikolov and told police he visited annually or when something was reported.
He also said he did not know the names of any of the people who were living there.
Ms Burnham-Davies added: "He clearly knew that it was his responsibility to comply with the regulations."
Baryah admitted a series of offences involving breaches of safety, cleanliness, ventilation and lighting regulations, among others.
Defending, Simon Goodman told the court: "This was not an attempt to get away with not spending money.
"Ultimately the place just needed re-doing and now it's been done."
Presiding magistrate Martin Scott told Baryah: "You are an extremely experienced landlord with a substantial property portfolio. But those were serious offences where your tenants were put at risk."
Baryah was fined a total of £5,000 and ordered to pay £6,000 in prosecution costs within six months.
Zynga CEO and founder Mark Pincus just took the stage here at D10, and in a wide-ranging interview with Kara Swisher, he sidestepped conversation about Words With Friends and Farmville long enough to touch on the murky world of console gaming. In a bid to quell any potential surprises at E3 next month, Mark said outrightly that his company is not interested in getting into the console world. "We're aiming for you," he said while pointing at Swisher. "We're going after the mainstream market. There's too much friction [in the console world]."
He also made clear that he tries to not look too far ahead of where the world really is. When talking about the undeniable shift to mobile, he made clear that there's still a huge amount of desktop traffic on Zynga's games -- "lots of people play while bored on conference calls at work," he quipped. It's an interesting viewpoint in a world where PSN and Xbox Live Arcade has given independent developers all new distribution platforms to reach users, but it also highlights the outfit's intrinsic attachment to Facebook in particular.
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus says 'no thanks' to console gaming, isn't worried about a life detached from Facebook originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 May 2012 13:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | CommentsMaybe our skeptic's goggles have fogged over with excitement, but there's something mightily interesting about an entry over at GLBenchmark. First off, the model number and listing info vaguely suggest it could be a variant of the LS970 superphone rumored for Sprint, aka the LG Eclipse, although the ICS build ("geeb_att_us-eng 4.0.4") indicates this 1.5GHz device is one of Ma Bell's. One of the more unusual specs offers some corroboration: the Adreno 320 graphics, which only come in the souped-up Pro or quad-core variants of Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon S4 chipset. That would make the LE970 a rare breed indeed, but unfortunately that's about all we can learn at this point. The actual benchmark scores tell us nothing about the handset's performance other than that it can max out the Egypt Standard test despite its 1280 x 720 screen -- making it impossible to compare it to regular Snapdraon S4 phones like the HTC One X on AT&T or the HTC One S. Oh well, where are those lens wipes?
Update: An earlier version of this post confused the benchmark results with the Egypt Offscreen test -- apologies for the error.
[Thanks, Ketul]
Mystery LG LE970 claims next-gen Adreno graphics, can't quite prove it originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 May 2012 09:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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