By James Simons-
Rogue landlord, Mr Crow has been warned to stop breaching social distancing rules, after being caught leaving his property to meet up with a woman on more than one occasion in the past few days.
Government guidelines have given restricted circumstances under which people can leave their property during this pandemic period. Individuals are only allowed to leave their home to shop for basic necessities, for example food and medicine, which must be as infrequent as possible
One form of exercise a day, for example a run, walk, or cycle – alone or with members of your household, any medical need, including to donate blood, avoid or escape risk of injury or harm, or to provide care or to help a vulnerable person, travelling for work purposes, but only where you cannot work from home.
High Risk
The notorious landlord, 71 belongs the high risk age bracket but continues to defy government guidelines about social distancing. The embattled former landlord, whose renting business went bust after Southend Borough Council put a stop to providing him with housing benefit for his tenants has been holed up in the only flat he owns that has still not been taken from him.
Three of his properties in the coveted Devereux Road in Southend On Sea Essex, have now been repossessed and locked up. The only one he has left is on its way to repossession after a court order gave him a month in February to pay £4,000 or lose the property.
Breaching Social Distancing: Ex Landlord Robert Crow
Fortunate
Mr.Crow was fortunate to have the repossession order frozen when the national lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus occurred. In fact the time period he was given had lapsed by a day, but just before any physical action was taken, Boris Johnson’s instructions to the country to freeze all action including repossession, came as a gift to him. saved him.
The widely despised landlord would have been stuck in one of the bed and breakfast hotel rooms alongside other homeless individuals, some of whom he housed in the past.
Mr.Crow whose existence is barely sustainable, currently lives in the smallest of the four flats which he shares with two Romanian squatters, not permitted to be there after a court order warned the landlord not to allow anybody besides close family members to spend the night at his property.
When confronted on phone by The Eye Of Media.Com about his breaches of social distance and lockdown rules, he said: ”i’m only going on walks, What do these lot want, for me to rot in a property that has no electricity and probably die of coronavirus? I don’t hold hands with her or anything, we just go on walks”.The former landlord was reminded that he is not allowed to meet anyone not part of his household in these times. He eventually accepted this was true.
Mr. Crow was trying to sell the two flats repossessed before the lenders find a buyer for it. His plan was to get a buyer to pay the total money owed and leave him with some money. Those plans seem to also have been interfered with by the lockdown rules given by the government, meaning that he is stuck in his one bed apartment and still runs the risk of the completely losing them to his creditors.