Landlord fined for breaching gas safety rules

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A landlord has been fined for failing to protect her tenants from potential carbon monoxide poisoning after she failed to get a gas fire in one of her properties safety checked.

Helen Beckett of Addingham, Ilkley, was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay court costs of £1,500 after she ignored warnings from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) that she needed to carry out the necessary checks.

She was found guilty of breaking gas safety regulations between July 2007 and January 2009 in relation to a flat she owned in Cleethorpes.

Steven Kay, HSE inspector, said: "This important legislation needs to be taken seriously by landlords to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning or even death."

Mr Kay said the HSE was concerned there may be other landlords in the UK who were putting their tenants at risk in similar circumstances.

Earlier this year, property manager Sandeep Rajput, of Halesowen, was fined £1,200 after two tenants in his wife's property fell ill with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning due to an unsafe gas fire.

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