A plumber has received a suspended
sentence for putting the lives of landlords’ tenants at risk after
deceiving landlords by claiming he was Gas Safe registered.
Keith Downie supplied gas safety
records to the landlords of at least three properties in the Darlington
area between February and May 2012.
The Health and Safety Executive
launched an investigation after a member of the public alerted them to
his activities and Downie was this week prosecuted at Darlington
Magistrates’ Court.
The court was told that all
landlords have a legal duty to ensure safety checks are carried out on
gas appliances within their properties to protect their tenants, and
that the work must be done by a Gas Safe engineer.
HSE’s investigation confirmed that
Downie had provided the landlords with gas safety records for three
separate properties in the town. The documents stated that the safety
checks had been carried out, but they proved to be fraudulent.
Downie had told the landlords he
was Gas Safe registered, and in two instances he even claimed to be the
engineer that had carried out the previous year’s checks. However, the
court heard Downie had never been Gas Safe registered and was not
competent to carry out the work.
Downie, 51, was sentenced to 16
weeks in prison suspended for 12 months and ordered to carry out 200
hours unpaid work and pay £500 in costs after pleading guilty to six
breaches of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
An HSE spokesman said that “Downie displayed a deliberate and reckless approach to the law.”
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