A LODGER who strangled his landlady and lived with her rotting corpse for a month told his girlfriend he was “going down to the fires with old Lucifer”, a court heard. Kristian Smith allegedly ...

Until the credit crisis hit, taking in lodgers was for characters in faded novels. Now it's a middle-class survival tactic. 'One French man never left the house and was constantly playing loud music ...

ONCE in a while conversation shifts to the inevitable topic about landlords and how they treat their tenants. In the topsy-turvy world of lodgers and their tormentors, the horror stories could fill a ...

A lodger killed his 83-year-old landlady and "destroyed" her body on a bonfire to fake her disappearance so he could continue living in her house, a court has heard. Allan Scott, 42, had been homeless ...

A lodger suffered horrific burns when his drunken landlady torched the building he was sleeping inside. Piotr Beben, 38, is scarred for life after sustaining 27 per cent burns to his legs, back and ...

Carl Gough claims the dog was muzzled so could not fight back as the woman began kicking and smacking it over and over again the hallway Calling all dog lovers! Sign up to TeamDogs for your weekly ...

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