A convicted murderer has been blocked from becoming a private landlord.
In Scotland landlords have to be registered before operating, with consent being given or denied by the local authority.
Now Glasgow council says Morton Eadie - who is hoping to have his conviction as a murderer overturned at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh - does not meet the requirement of being a “fit and proper” to rent out property to the public.
Eadie, 56, was sentenced last February to life imprisonment for the murder, with a stipulation that it should be 22 years before he can seek parole.
Eadie was one of four men found guilty of what a court heard was a “planned execution" of a man as he sat in a car at traffic lights in Glasgow.
In the court case early this year the judge Lord Beckett said that people who were "prepared to engage in such meticulously planned and ruthlessly perpetrated assassination on the streets of our cities can expect substantial punishment".
Reports of the court case say that police uncovered evidence which showed that Darren Eadie had started planning an attack for which he recruited his father Morton, and two other men.
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Be difficult for him to carry out any repairs when he's in solitary confinement eh ?
Just ensure his property doesn’t have a cellar and I am sure it will be fine 😬
If he is In jail he can use an agent.
This law in Scotland gets my vote for public safety. 👍
It should be a law in every country - no convicted criminal landlords - direct or indirect via SPV/company.
Tenants need to be protected from criminal landlords, who are also ruining the life (& reputation) of good, honest PRS landlords.
Tenants are at a liberty, and should do criminal background checks on landlords as a standard process for own safety & due diligence.
There are costs associated with it - just like everything else in life.
I did LL’s criminal background checks as a standard process when renting (U.K., USA, India, Germany) during the university years, thanks to the safety guidance provided by my brother.
This makes no sense to me. If he is in prison how can he become a Landlord? If he already is one, what now happens? Surely if he owns property he simply gets the person who will be managing it to be the landlord? Or is this a ruse to make it more difficult for his assets to be seized?
Why should any criminal have those sorts of priviledges?
Lock 'em up and pay for their crimes and feel it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why don't they put treadmills back in prison and use them to generate electricity?
At current energy prices that would turn prisons into huge profit centres!
Sentences could be given based on a target number of kWh generated,so hard workers could return to society earlier and the indolent would either rot in jail or develop a work ethic.
In the interests of fairness shouldn't the three extremely wealthy Hate Gangs who abuse and mentally torture landlords children and their parents be banned from receiving any form of donation or being charities ??
I don't know how they got charity status, they are clearly very profitable businesses to be able to pay their management 6 figure salaries
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