73-year-old landlord, Frederick Allard asked young female tenants to perform s-x acts in exchange for reduced rent has been jailed for two and a half years.
WHAT HAPPENED?
He preyed on three ‘vulnerable women’ by offering them a room in his house – which he advertised on Spareroom and only rented to females – in exchange for ‘se-ual favours’.
The pensioner told one teenage tenant to always ‘be prepared to do whatever I ask’ and when she rejected his advances he told her ‘If you don’t want the room that’s okay’.
Allard demanded one tenant perform oral sex for him to stay, and a search of his devices found a pornography collection that included videos showing ‘exploitative s-x between landlords and their tenants’.
COURT HEARD
Salisbury Crown Court, Wilts, heard the offences took place between February 2019 and January 2023 and involved three women.
It was heard Allard ran a boarding house at his £270,000, six-bedroom home in Tidworth, Wiltshire.
HOW HE ASSAULTED THEM
In 2019, one 20-year-old victim ‘had to leave her home’ so messaged Allard on the website.
Allard invited the young girl over to the property and it was there that he told her he ‘expected her to do certain things’ in order to rent the room.
The second victim, a 19-year-old girl, also desperately needed somewhere to live and was informed about the spare room on the noticeboard at a local Tesco.
It was heard that on each visit to the house, Allard ‘covertly recorded’ her – including one occasion in which he filmed himself se-ually assaulting the teen.
On this occasion, in 2020, Allard took her up to his bedroom, sat on the bed and asked her to sit down next to him.
When she refused, her picked her up and placed her on his lap.
