An Otley family has been left devastated — and homeless — after a rogue builder took their savings, botched the job, and then denied ever being paid.
No receipts. No contract. No proof.
Just a wrecked home and a builder claiming, “I never got the money.”
A plumber from Suffolk who conned vulnerable customers out of £30,000 and left them with unsafe and unfinished work has been jailed. Grant Phillips, 45, of Heron Road, Ipswich, admitted to fraudulent trading and was sentenced to 26 months in prison at Ipswich Crown Court. Between April 2021 and October 2023, Phillips took payments from …
