A Govanhill slum landlord who has been removed from the register is the former owner of a care home which a sheriff branded a “squalid enterprise”.

Anu Sarker owns a flat in Westmoreland Street for which Glasgow City Council is seeking a compulsory purchase order due to the severely run down state of the tenement building.

There are three owners registered with the Scottish Landlords Register for the block and the Evening Times decided to track them down.

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Mrs Sarker said she wants a “good price” from the council for the flat, accused the council of greed and blamed tenants and immigrants for the state of Govanhill.

Mrs Sarker and her husband Dr Rahda Sarker owned and managed the Glenglova Residential Home in Mansewood, Glasgow, where a 79 year-old woman died after she was admitted to hospital “dehydrated and emaciated”.

The home was closed and Dr Sarker struck off by the GMC.

Sherrif Convery, at the time in 1994, said:“Inadequate standards of heating, food, hygiene and care translate into elderly people being kept cold, hungry, dirty and miserable.”

After closing the home Mrs Sarker moved in to the property business and said she has been a landlord for more than 20 years.

Outside her large detached family home in Newton Mearns, Mrs Sarker said the council were being “greedy” trying to take her flat.

She blamed the tenants for problems in the close and said Govanhill would be better if immigrants from eastern Europe were removed.

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When asked by the Evening Times about the residential home she said it was “all lies”.

The Sheriff said the home was a “squalid enterprise where frail and confused residents were kept as human livestock for money.”

Mrs Sarker said that was “a piece of nonsense” and that she challenged it at the time.

Her husband Dr Sarker pursued a lengthy appeal against the GMC decision to strike him off but abandoned it after three years.

Mrs Sarker said: “Why was there no legal action? Because we are clear”.

The Evening Times asked Mrs Sarker if she was now treating tenants in her current business similarly, leaving them in poor conditions motivated by profit.

She blamed the tenants for the living conditions.

She said: “I have done the kitchen, I have written to the council. I have looked after them but they destroy it.”

“From March last year to now, they pay no rent, nothing, they are sitting on their backside.

“So now I say enough is enough. I will go to the sheriff officers to vacate them.”

Glasgow City Council had Mrs Sarker removed from the landlord register In August last year and she was issued with a rent penalty notice which means she is not able to charge rent for the property.

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The landlord said the council was “greedy”.

If the Compulsory Purchase Order is granted Mrs Sarker and the other owners can apply for compensation dependent on market value.

She however, said it is a property transaction and said the council will need to negotiate a price to take the flat.

She said: “They need to negotiate with us”. She said she would consider selling to the council “If it is a good price”.

She declined to say what would be a good price for her.

The landlord blamed the recent immigrant population for the problems in the area.

Mrs Sarker said: “People are so stupid. If they throw out the Slovakian and Romanians and others it would be a good area.

“I am passionate for property to be well looked after.”

Last month the Evening Times reported how the council was looking to take over seven flats in the block at 97 Westmoreland Street,including one owned by Mrs Sarker and transfer them to Govanhill Housing Association who will repair the common areas and refurbish the flats and offer them for social rent.

When the Evening Times visited the block the signs of squalor and decay were obvious.

Stair railings were broken and the back close sealed of as a “hazardous area”. There were signs of drug taking on the top floor and dirty furniture and a broken buggy left on landings.