Offender Who Targeted Elderly and Vulnerable Jailed
Roofer who targeted elderly and vulnerable jailed
A roofer who targeted elderly and vulnerable people, charging thousands of pounds for work that of ten did not need carrying out, has been jailed after a successful prosecution.
Patrick Christopher Dunne, 20, of Griff Park Travellers’ Site, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, was sentenced to two years and nine months at York Crown Court today (Friday, 21 June) after pleading guilty to 34 counts of fraud and consumer protection offences. He also admitted laundering the proceeds of his offending.
Officers identified numerous victims in North Yorkshire and the West Midlands who had been visited by Dunne between February 2017 and May 2018.
The court was told he would offer to carry out inexpensive quick fixes and then inform the householders he had “discovered” further problems.
This additional work cost significantly more money, sometimes running into thousands of pounds.
He was prosecuted in relation to 17 victims, including a number of elderly and vulnerable people.
Dunne also received a Criminal Behaviour Order, banning him from cold calling for five years on his release from prison.
He will also be subject to a Proceeds of Crime Act confiscation case in an effort to remove assets obtained from crime and to compensate the victims