JUDGE AND FURY
RINDER SIDES WITH CALLOUS LANDLORD
BY ALAN McEWEN alan.mcewen@reachplc.com A LANDLORD who dumped a mum of nine’s belongings in a garden during an eviction has won £1250 from his former tenant on TV show Judge Rinder.
David Love appeared on the ITV show yesterday to demand £5000 in damages from Donna Newby.
The businessman wanted £1750 just for “my time to go out and organise all the repairs” on the Edinburgh flat.
Love, 37, sparked outrage after we revealed how Donna’s belongings were flung into the communal front garden in the city’s Wester Drylaw Place.
Donna, 41, asked the TV judge to award her £4400 for the loss of her possessions.
But Rinder sided with the landlord and ordered her to stump up the cost of “unreasonable” damage to a sink, window and alarm.
He ruled she’d been given enough warning to move her belongings before and after the eviction.
In clips filmed after the hearing, Donna described boxer Love as a “vile, vile human being”.
Love told her the items were “junk”, adding: “If there was anything worth keeping, I would’ve kept it and sold it.”
Rinder heard how Donna had lived in the flat for about a decade but fell behind on rent following the death of her sister and after her benefits were sanctioned.
Love applied for her eviction last December, Judge Rinder was told, and went