Letting agent fined £11,500 after breaking the law A LETTING agent has been fined £11,500 after breaking the law. Benjamin Jacob-Smith, of Pemberton Field, Essex, signed a ‘rent to rent’ contract with the owner of a house on Donnington Bridge Road, Oxford, on July 15, 2019. The contract saw the 34-year-old pay £3,100 rent each month to the owner of the property. He then issued individual tenancies to unrelated occupants. On February 7, 2020, an Oxford City Council housing officer visited the house and found that it was occupied by four people and was an unlicensed HMO. An HMO is a house with shared amenities (toilet, bathroom and/or kitchen) that is occupied by three or more people who are not from the same family.
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A man, who was convicted for a string of shoplifting offences, has been sentenced to prison and issued with a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) stopping him from entering Didcot. Simon White, 41, of Blay Road, Oxford, pleaded guilty to 15 offences of shoplifting at various retail outlets in Orchard Street, Didcot and London Road, Headington, between September and November 2020. At his hearing at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday January 20, White also asked for a further seven offences of shoplifting to be taken into consideration. He was sentenced to a total of 36 weeks in prison and issued with a CBO for a period of five years.