A landlord who illegally converted a house into six-homes must pay back more than £100,000.

Evangelos Evangelou, 38, converted a three-bedroom house in Beaconsfield Road, in Enfield Lock, into six homes.

He pleaded guilty at Wood Green Crown Court to an offence under the Town and Country Planning Act.

In October 2010 he was found to have converted the home and ordered to restore it to its previous state, something Evangelou refused to do until he was prosecuted by the local authority three years later.

He was ordered to pay a £14,294 fine, a £120 victim surcharge and told to pay £125,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act to ensure he did not profit from illegally renting out the unauthorised conversion.

If Evangelou does not pay the compensation within six months he faces a 27-month prison sentence.

Cabinet member for environment and community safety Councillor Chris Bond said: "The planning process is there to ensure that new developments and conversions are safe, lawful and meet safety standards. Landlords cannot run amok and recklessly convert houses into multiple properties willy nilly and rent them out in order to make a quick buck, without expecting us to come after them.

"He will also have to put the building back in its original state, in fact he would have been well advised to have listened to our planning enforcement officers and gone through the proper planning process in the first place, because it would have saved him considerable time, effort and money."