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He said he helped women find accommodation through landlords, and added that women followed him to parties because of his wealthy Dubai contacts.

When that space turned out to be too big for an art studio, the landlord told Stringer he was free to take a look at the shed out back.

"One's heart has to go out to the good people at Bodycare who are losing their jobs, the suppliers missing payments, and the landlords losing rent. That is the vicious circle of business failure."

The Reids were first-time landlords and had used Howards Estate and Letting Agents, a firm based across Norfolk and north Suffolk, to find them a tenant and manage renting the home out.

She is one of many landlords selling their properties ahead of the new Renters' Rights Bill - one of the biggest overhauls of the private rental sector.