Agenda item

1.           Members noted a successful tenancy fraud prosecution at the Central Criminal Court, where the Judge had imposed the following criminal penalties:

•           Six months imprisonment, suspended for two years.

•           A three-month electronic curfew (tag) between 10pm and 6am

•           A criminal benefit confiscation order made to the value of £91,480, to be paid in three months.

•           If the confiscation order isn’t paid within three-months, the Defendant may have to serve a twelve-month default sentence.

Members noted that the confiscation order is subject to the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS) rules, which means that the City Corporation will  receive 37% of the value (approx. £33,847), with 50% going to the home office, and the remainder to the Courts Service.

2.         Members had received a number of complaints about the noisy fans on the Middlesex Street Estate and asked if this could be resolved as a matter of urgency.