Landlord held at knifepoint by ‘tenant from hell’

As usual, a soft sentence.

How exactly is a suspended sentence appropriate for that level of behaviour?
What kind of message does that send to anyone? The landlord and housemate were attacked and threatened in their own home, the place they should feel safest in.

Sending the culprit to prison will do what? He has issues which need to be addressed. Will the ex-tenant come out as a reformed character I don’t think so.

Knife Crime....I remember when it was going to get you a 5 year Prison Sentence, until they looked at the demographics and didn't want to be accused of targeting people...
So there we have it, a criminal justice system that doesn't want to upset people, and instead let's violent thugs and child molesters go walkies.

So was this “ gentleman “ a lodger ? Given his months notice and change of locks ? So not a tenant as such 🤷‍♂️

I give up with present day police and courts, hopeless, perhaps we need to take the law into our own hands

I can't believe he was not immediately reported to the police and asked to leave, or how the other housemates allowed him to stay. A live-in landlord should in any case be able to remove the person with zero notice, as it will be an excluded tenancy. Even if it was a regular HMO, he could be reported to the police and asked to leave immediately for the safety of other residents.

Only in uk can this happen

Sentence is a joke..... Welcome to the UK

Jim Halliburton, l don't know what planet you are living on. You are virtue signalling here for your own purposes. Where you are based it's quite rough, l crossed a short dual carriageway nearby, and shot off from the centre, the back door opened and an expensive drill fell out. I stopped nearby and went to retrieve it and someone had already done it. I stopped his van him and took it off him, much to his chagrin.

I would think there was a long period of time with problems from this tenant before this final incident. It's a shame the police don't act sooner, before it gets to such physical threats.

So the detective was really glad that he got him before the courts??? For what ?? The equivalent of a Ticking Off...????

Would the landlord have got the suspended sentence????

Or would he face a rent repayment order, life imprisonment, civil law cases for compensation to families etc?

I find this hard to believe , everyone knows all tenants are cute cuddly soft bunny rabbits and all landlords are satan worshippers at best. /s

This shows that the landlord put so much trust in the tenants. The tenants may not pay rent, get violent, even then only way you can evict them is through the courts, as it happened to me. My tenants stopped paying and always pushed me and said never come back to the house. I only went there if they confirmed my going there, not by the guy but his female partner. My brother who once came with me and saw that he pushed me and he said I should not accept this. I said this is not the first time. He took me to the police station and made me write a complaint. The police said he had complained about me, but they did not take him seriously. Their counsellor. They send me ear piercing bell for protection. When I went to give notice for them to leave, he got violet with verbal abuse. The police was once passing by and heard the tenant's shouting and came in as the front door was open. The police said I should get them out. I said they will not sign the s.8 notice. It was also posted before hand with c certificate of posting. His partner had confirmed receipt. The police said he would sign the copy and put down what I wanted. I said, just to state that one copy was hand delivered to the tenants. All this including the case number of abuse and harassment was actually helped me to get rid of the tenants in the court. Also the fact they never attended. I lost 10 months rent altogether and the damage they caused after leaving. Like external pipes were broken and paint thrown at the rear of the property. The police and the next door neighbour, both phoned me. However, the neighbour refused to give the CCTV recording of them doing the damage. They refused me and also the police. This is what police were after for a long time. It was not the first offense, apparently, but no evidence as people feared him. Unfortunately for the landlord, this sort of thing takes a long time to bring to court and the council had advised them not to leave until the bailiff got them out. The council, shelter, Rent Generation all encourage the tenants not to pay and cause havoc. Some people will never have any kind of responsibilities and I do believe those people need to stay in the streets.

I understand under new government guidelines tenants will have the '' right" to stab their landlord eight times with a knife up to seven inches long and their children under eleven years old they will have a "right" to stab them four times before they are given a severe telling off