Court round-up

A company was ordered to pay more than £21,000 after a Bayswater hotel it owned was found to have breached fire safety regulations.

When The Averard Hotel, in Lancaster Gate, was inspected on April 8 last year, fire officers found a number of fire safety failings including an inadequate fire detection and alarm system.

Twelve shame-faced revellers learned the hard way that when nature calls, it can come at a price.

As part of London's biggest ever crackdown on people urinating in streets, they were all brought before court after they were caught red-handed in places including Victoria and Soho.

An MS sufferer died suddenly at her Queen's Park home, an inquest heard.

Dobrella Lazarevic, 55, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000, making it hard for her to walk more than 10 metres without the aid of a stick.

A retired Paddington GP died two days before Christmas after falling from his hospital bed, an inquest heard.

Dr Peter Nicolaides, of Cabbell Street, was staying at nearby St Mary's Hospital because of a series of health problems.

Two convicted robbers have been ordered to pay more than half a million pounds for stolen items which have not been recovered.

Brothers Matthew and Daniel Mykoo, 28 and 29, were told to pay a combined sum of £561,944.97 when they appeared at Wood Green Crown Court on February 19.

A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a series of thefts at Paddington station.
 
The charges relate to luggage thefts from trains that took place from December 6 to 23, in the build up to Christmas.

A man is due to appear in court today, charged with murdering a man at a Marylebone hotel.

Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 33, is accused of murdering Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz, 32, at the Landmark Hotel, in Marylebone Road, on Monday (15).

A drug addict who found his flatmate dead waited two days before telling police, an inquest heard.

Freelance writer Christopher Drouet, 60, lived with Jeffrey Bell at a one-bedroom flat in Crompton House, in Hall Place, Paddington.

A caretaker was found dead by his wife at their North Paddington home, an inquest heard.

Carol Beckett checked on the rest of the building in Shirland Road that she looked after with her husband, before returning to the basement where they lived.

A man has appeared in court accused of burgling two houses and a hotel in the Bayswater and Mayfair areas.

Jimmy Dormer, 29, of no fixed abode, was charged with three counts of burglary at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday (5).

He was remanded in custody, to reappear on 12 February.