A landlord who refused to rent properties to “coloured” people because he claimed they left a “curry smell” has complained to the police after being branded a racist online.

Fergus Wilson, who reportedly owns more than 1,000 properties in Kent, hit the headlines last month after his instructions to a letting agent were leaked.

In an email to the agent, Britain’s first buy-to-let tycoon said: “No coloured people because of the curry smell at the end of the tenancy.”

Defending the comments, he said they were based on an “economic view, not a racist view” because he had been forced to replace carpets left with a “curry smell”.

He has subsequently faced a backlash online, including mocked-up photos of him and his wife holding properties boards saying “I am a racist c***” and “racist, homophobic prick.”

Now the landlord has passed the photos, along with a Youtube video in which he is branded a “racist dickwad”, to the police.

A Kent police spokesperson confirmed they were “working to establish if any offences have taken place.”

Meanwhile, Mr Wilson is facing an investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, who called his comments “unlawful.”