Six years for fugitive ‘landlord’

A fraudster who posed as a landlord to con tenants out of more than £10,000 in deposits will be sent to jail – when the police find him. James Bennett, 32, reeled in victims with a series of listings on the Spareroom.com website advertising rooms for rent in Brixton, Walworth, Elephant & Castle and Tooting. Inner London Crown Court heard he was not permitted to let any of them and was himself facing eviction from his own home. Bennett ripped…