Chippenham roofers pleaded guilty to trading standards offences following an investigation by Wiltshire Council officers. John Sykes, 35 and William Birch, 38, trading as J’s Roofing and Building, pleaded guilty on Monday 24 April, at Swindon Crown Court to one charge of fraud and two unfair trading offences. They will …
Rogue Trading
Rogue Trading
Rogue trading encompasses a range of activity where the trader is acting outside of the Law and to the detriment of the consumer. Activities largely relate to substandard services, including products not meeting the required weights and measures (e.g. underweight goods, such as bulk fuel or short measures at your …
Rogue Traders Jailed for Roofing Fraud Netting Over £150,000
Two men were jailed at Bristol Crown Court today for defrauding 17 customers who had roofing jobs done by a number of businesses operated by the pair. They sometimes operated alone, but often together, in order to defraud their customers, some of whom were elderly and vulnerable, and netted over …
Prosecution of Sherborne Woman Follows Counterfeit Clothing Seizure
A Sherborne woman who was stopped with over 300 items of counterfeit clothing in her van has been prosecuted and sentenced. On 18 May 2022, at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court, Tracey Hampson, aged 41 of South Avenue, Sherborne was sentenced to 100 hours unpaid work after pleading guilty to four offences …
Roof coating company prosecuted for mis-selling building works
A company has pleaded guilty to misleading a Dorset couple into urgently buying roofing work at an excessive price. Owl Home Solutions Limited pleaded guilty at Bournemouth Crown Court on the 12 May 2022 to two offences under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations. An investigation by Dorset Council Trading …
Cowboy builder defrauded customers with shoddy work
A South West tradesman has been jailed for more than three years after he admitted running a fraudulent business. Daniel Denison appeared at Bristol Crown Court this week where he was sentenced for a number of offences relating to incidents between October 1, 2016 and April 30, 2018. The court …