You’re nicked: Private tenants and homelessness charity Shelter demonstrated outside the Old Bailey in London last Friday as notorious landlord Nicholas van Hoogstraten was handed a 10-year jail sentence for manslaughter. They demanded the law be changed to require all houses in multiple occupation to be licensed, and a code of management practice be introduced for private landlords. Hoogstraten, who owned nearly 3000 properties in the 1980s, has convictions for breaching safety laws as well as the manslaughter of a business associate.