A tenant has been jailed for two years following a civil case in which she confessed to fraudulently supplying false references and pay slips to letting agents.
Sharon Watts, 47, from Land’s End in Cornwall provided the false documents to Miller Countrywide and Anthony Richards Property Services to obtain tenancies on two occasions in 2013.
Truro Crown Court, which had adjourned the case in June to examine sentencing options, sentenced Watts to two years in prison.
Local Cornish papers report one of the landlords involved saying that: “When she got into the property [she] never paid the rent then she basically lived rent free whilst you go through the eviction process.
“People always said to me that the police are not interested as it’s a civil case. That’s not correct. If a landlord can show that the application form is false and they fail to pay rent then they are deceiving the landlord out of what rightly is theirs.
“I must have spent hours and hours writing emails and letters to the police and Action for Fraud… I wrote to complaints at Action for Fraud, police chief Devon and Cornwall and police complaints.”
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Look what he had to do to get justice, she should of paid her rent i guess she was under the impression that because it was a landlord issue that she would not be prosecuted