Ex-Burgulars Given a Licence To Snoop Round Your House

Burgulars and thives can be appointed to inspect homes because of a serious blunder by Labour.

Energy assessors for the rapidly failing Home Information Packs will not be checked by the Police for previous convictions.

Some 2,000 applicants are being trained to carry out the so called Green Audits, a section of the HIP packs which include key documents needed to sell a home.

Believe it or not, some prisoners have even been phoning surveyors organisations from their cells to find out how to become assessors.

Tory MP Grant Shapps, Housing Spokesman, said: "The prospect of someone who has previously been convicted of burgulary strolling into your house on apparently official business will concern thousands of householders throughout the country.

Lib Dem MP Paul Holmes said "Estate agents and surveyors ad flagged up the concerns with housing ministers, but their fears had been repeatedly ignored."