Housing boss squatter out

ANDREW CHADWICK: evicted

A LETTING agent who was illegally squatting in a property he managed has been evicted by the High Court.

Andrew Chadwick was living in a house in Edmund Street, Shaw, after telling the property’s owner he had rented it to someone.

Mr Chadwick, a director at Cousins and Co until the company went into liquidation earlier this year, claimed to have rented out the property and supplied the owner with false information about the tenant. The owner, who lives in America, became suspicious in 2014 when she received no rent from Cousins.

After months of trying to get the money - eventually around £5,000 - a neighbour’s tip-off led her to believe Chadwick was living there.

The owner immediately applied to the courts to evict Chadwick as an illegal squatter.

The move followed several reports regarding Chadwick and the company, which had failed to pay other landlords money they were owed from managed properties. One ws owed more tha £10,000.

Mr Chadwick’s eviction was filmed for the Channel 5 programme “Can’t Pay, We’ll Take It Away”, with the Chronicle’s stories featuring in the research into Mr Chadwick. The case has now been passed to fraud investigators.