All news on the topic: Rogue Traders

Dodgy builder Daniel Roche, from Porth, was handed a four year and five months prison sentence after conning homeowners into paying thousands of pounds, only to leave homes in an unfit state and leave work incompleted.

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Kyle Stafford, 23, left a couple with a half-done roof at their property in Leyland, which experts say didn't 'even meet the standard of a DIYer' after he vanished during the job

Electrician Robbie Tomlinson, 29, from Scunthorpe, has been ordered to pay nearly £13,000 in fines and compensation after lying about his qualifications and carrying out shoddy work

A builder, along with other members of the community, came together to make a woman's day after a rogue trader knocked down her garden wall in Maghull, Sefton, Merseyside

Trading Standards officers are fighting against the Wild West home improvement industry

Rogue trader Peter Billydean Price, 25, charged a vulnerable customer in mid Ceredigion, Wales, £4,600 to replace old roof tiles but just painted the old ones orange

Sheffield, Liverpool, and Bristol complete the top five - with Brits forking out £1,150 on average to what turned out to be a rogue trader

Jessica Burton had saved up to have her home renovated and hired a painter to sort the job, but says he turned up to work for just two days before leaving the job 'unfinished'

Lee Slocombe, 40, of Swansea-based firm Kamlee Builders defrauded families out of £147,000 for work which was either incomplete or unnecessary and has been jailed

William Bower, 44, overcharged elderly and vulnerable people looking for landscaping, gardening or property works in the East Midlands area