Their attenpt to evict a tenant who had 300 cannabis plants in her spare bedroom has been dismissed by senior judges.
City West Housing Trust, based in Salford, had tried to evict a tenants after the plants were discovered at her Swinton home last year. Her eviction was blocked when she claimed to have “no idea” her boyfriend had been growing the cannabis. She had allowed him to use the spare room to store his belongings.
Rejecting City West’s appeal, Lady Justice Mary Arden said the district judge had been entitled to showmercy.
Sitting with Lords Justice Christopher Floyd and Philip Sales, she agreed there was “a sound basis for hope” that she would succeed in keeping th boyfriend away from her home in future.
As a single mother of three young children, she had rightly been given a last chance to keep her Beechfield Road home, the appeal judge concluded.
The boyfriend , who was homeless when he left his belongings with the tenant, has since been convicted of cannabis production.