A Hounslow landlord has been stripped of his HMO licences after letting out filthy bedsits which were potential death traps.
Hounslow Council revoked Ifthikar Uddin's licences for properties in Avonwick Drive and Fairfields Road on the grounds he was not a 'fit and proper' person to hold them.
The council also banned Uddin from acting as a managing agent for any house with multiple occupiers.
The sanctions were imposed in the summer but Uddin appealed. His appeal failed last month and the ruling has just been made public.
Hounslow Council leader Steve Curran said: "We will not tolerate rogue landlords in Hounslow. Where we have the evidence and power we will crack down hard on these parasites who are making profits from vulnerable people, often on sky high rents."
Uddin rented out bedsits in houses without holding an HMO licence, which is required for any house in the borough with three or more unrelated occupiers.
Properties he owned or managed were also found to have inadequate fire safety, dangerous boilers, electrical hazards, damp and mould.
In one property, the tenants had no control of the heating or hot water supply, which were controlled by their landlord living next door.
Council officers found 16 people living in one two-storey, four-bedroom house, and how one room was less than half the legal minimum size of 6.5sqm, with barely enough space for a bed.
Uddin was company secretary of Key Property (UK), in Bell Road, Hounslow, when the letting agency was fined £42,500 in September last year after being found guilty at Feltham Magistrates' Court of 15 housing offences.
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