Public Opinion
- Judges have referred to Mr van Hoogstraten as a "bully" and an "emissary of Beelzebub".
- The 1989 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine hit single "Sheriff Fatman" includes references to a fictional slum landlord described thus: "Now he's moving up onto second base... behind Nicholas Van Wotsisface" as becoming London's second worst landlord.
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