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Thomas Turner targeted vulnerable residents of four counties with overpriced work
Posted 28 March 2021 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Crime|South West
UPDATES: A South West rogue trader has been jailed after targeting elderly and vulnerable victims with unnecessary, sub-standard and grossly overpriced home maintenance work, with losses across eight cases exceeding £100,000.
A rogue trader who operated across four counties in the South West has been jailed following a prosecution by Dorset Council Trading Standards.
Thomas Edward Turner carried out various home and garden maintenance jobs at properties in Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Devon in 2017 and 2018 at grossly inflated prices.
A second man, Aaron Eli Brown, was also given a prison sentence fo...
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