But to the many refugees forced to live in the squalid conditions of his other hotel he is a landlord making a fortune out of their misery. Here, according to health experts, children have contracted scabies while other families have caught the highly infectious skin disease impetigo since arriving.
Cockroaches roam the floors, water leaks through ceilings and rubbish piles up in corridors.
Toilets are blocked, sheets are filthy and heavy-handed security guards who patrol the corridors intimidate residents. This is the infamous Thorncliffe Hotel, one of the country's largest hotels for the homeless, asylum seekers and refugees, and for many their very first taste of life in Britain. It is the dumping ground for all of us. Gurish, a graduate of King's College, London, claims meals served at the Thorncliffe are the same food delivered to five-star hotels across the capital. The residents, who say they live on a diet of eggs and curry, disagree.