Tonia Ashikodi falsely claimed not to be the beneficiary of houses that she let while living in a council flat

A Labour politician who lied to get social housing while renting out three properties is facing jail.

Tonia Ashikodi, 30, earned thousands of pounds each month from three homes let to private tenants. The councillor in Greenwich, southeast London, declared that she had no other property when she signed her council tenancy application in 2008. She repeated the lie in 2012. The Royal Borough of Greenwich (RBG) had taken more than three years to find her the home.

Ashikodi, who was elected to the Glyndon ward for Labour in 2016, denied two charges of fraud by false representation, and declined to give evidence. She was unanimously convicted by a jury of both charges at Inner London crown court yesterday.

The court was told that she