One of UK’s biggest landlords has banned people of colour from renting his properties because of curry smell. In an email to a agents acting on his behalf Fergus Wilson said: “No coloured people because of the curry smell at the end of the tenancy.”
When contacted by The Sun, Mr Wilson defended his comments, saying : “To be honest, we’re getting overloaded with coloured people. It is a problem with certain types of coloured people — those who consume curry — it sticks to the carpet. You have to get some chemical thing that takes the smell out. In extreme cases you have to replace the carpet.”
Anti-racism group Hope Not Hate said Mr Wilson’s comments were outrageous. “If people such as this man continue to choose tenants on the basis of ethnicity he should face the full force of the law.”
Earlier, Mr Wilson had made headlines after saying he would no longer accept victims of domestic violence as tenants because jealous or angry partners typically cause damage, the Daily Telegraph reported. He had refused to let out his properties to single parents, low income workers.
