Suspended Jail Term for landlord in contempt and harassment case

Suspended Jail Term for landlord in contempt and harassment case


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High profile landlord Fergus Wilson has been sentenced to six months in prison suspended for three years and ordered to pay £75,000 in costs.

He was found in contempt of court for breaching an injunction preventing him from continuing to harass staff and councillors at Ashford council in Kent.

The judgment was given at the end of last week by His Honour Judge Anthony Dunne KC, sitting as a judge of the High Court.

Ashford council had returned to the High Court in March alleging that Wilson, of Boughton Monchelsea near Maidstone, had continued to harass staff and councillors in breach of a previous court injunction.

The hearing in the High Court relates to an earlier case when the Council succeeded in obtaining an injunction restraining Wilson from harassing current and former officers, employees, councillors and agents. 

That earlier judgment required that the defendant only had contact with one senior officer at the Council.

In March His Honour Judge Dunne heard evidence from the authority that since the previous injunction was secured, Wilson has on multiple occasions continued to contact and harass staff and councillors on a range of issues. 

Wilson previously made the news after pledging to sell his 300-property buy to let portfolio after a series of court cases over his treatment of tenants.

In this latest case, Wilson represented himself in court.

Details of the previous High Court order can be found online.

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