A landlord has been fined after putting a mother and her young son at risk of suffering carbon monoxide poisoning for seven years at their home in Ashton-under-Lyne.

The landlord, Rent4U Ltd, of Manchester, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an inspection of the gas boiler at her home found it was in a condition classified as ‘immediately dangerous’.

Rent4U Ltd, of Christie Way, Christie Fields, Manchester, was fined £4,000 and ordered to pay £7,000 in prosecution costs after pleading guilty to two breaches of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 at Trafford Magistrates’ Court.

Rent4U Ltd had firm failed to arrange an annual gas safety check at the terraced house on Marlborough Street between 2007 and 2014. It had previously been served with two Improvement Notices by HSE in 2013 after failing to arrange annual gas safety checks at two other properties.