Imran Hussain, prosecuting on behalf of Bradford Council, told the court that last May the council had received a complaint that 18 Fairfax Avenue was being used as an unauthorised five-bedroom HMO.<\/p>\n
He said: “The owner had leased the premises to the defendant who had gone on to sublet the premises to other individuals without telling the owner.”<\/p>\n
Magistrates were told that the tenants were all unrelated, with Hussain adding: “It met the definition of a licensable HMO, but there was no record of an HMO licence ever being issued.”<\/p>\n
Tenants paid their rent to Instyle Aviation, which has Palaima listed as the sole director.<\/p>\n
Despite the name, Companies House says Instyle Aviation specialised in takeaway food shops and residential property management.<\/p>\n
Officers inspected the property shortly after, and found that some rooms had no fire escape windows no fire doors and no fire detection systems. <\/p>\n
Hussain said: “This caused an imminent risk of serious harm. Due to this risk an emergency prohibition order was served ordering him to immediately install smoke alarms.<\/p>\n
“The defendant agreed to do this that very day.<\/p>\n
“He joked that he could just send the officer an AI-generated image. The officer said he should be taking this extremely seriously.<\/p>\n
“He later sent photos purporting to show a smoke detector where there was previously no smoke detector.<\/p>\n
“The image was believed to be AI-generated. He sent that image showing a smoke detector on the ceiling on 27 October at 10.30pm. The following day at 11:30am officers re-visited the property and saw there was no smoke detector on the ceiling \u2013 confirming their suspicion that this was an AI image.<\/p>\n
“The fire safety risks were just too high and an emergency prohibition notice was served on the property.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imran Hussain, prosecuting on behalf of Bradford Council, told the court that last May the council had received…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-680320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}