Tenant shown cockroach infested room was laughed at when he asked for his deposit back

A tenant who refused to accept the keys to a cockroach-infested flat told a court the letting agents ‘laughed in his face’ when he asked for his money back. Mohammed Haque, 45, Runa Begum, 39, Fatima Begum, 41, Gonzalo Egea, 41, Razaur Rahman Oli, 49, Javel Tomlinson, 29, and Nozir Ahmed variously deny charges including fraudulent trading and engaging in unfair commercial practice. The fraudsters cashed in on London’s overheating property market to fleece desperate tenants fighting for accommodation, it…