Landlord to pay $5000 over tenant death
Nineteen-year-old Lesley Wehi-Jack died after the cooker in her Ruakaka house exploded in February last year.
She had been in the home for five days when a spark from a switch ignited a gas leak.
Seventy-three-year-old landlord Peter John McLeod appeared in Whangarei District Court and was ordered to pay $5000. He pleaded guilty to undertaking an unauthorised gas fitting, failing to take all practicable steps to ensure gas appliances were safe and completing gas work when not authorised to do so.
The charges had a maximum penalty of two years in prison or a $100,000 fine.
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