A welsh vet has shared her story of losing £ 200,000 in a rogue builder scam.
Jessica Reader Lost The Hughe Sum After Hiring A Builder Who Did Not Deliver The Work She Had Asked for.
Reader, A Veterinary Surgeon from Wenvoe in Vale of Glamorgan, Came Across an Advert in a Local Paper Back in 2022 for Michael Anderson, a Builder.
He cleared to have been in the constressional trade for over 50 years, and reader heed to be built an eco-home on land belonging to her parent near the town's Golf Club.
Anderson, 76, Gave Reader a Quote of £ 131,000 after She Had Made Clear Her Budget of £ 70,000, convincing her to pay the extra case.
Instead of the home She had exposed, Anderson Built a shell of a building, which had a sagging roof where the center sat in the center.
The project remained at this stage for months, with reader starting to suspect after some time that Anderson would not be back to the finish the job.
She Told Walesonline: “He sue nice, genuinely. Planning matters, which I don't, so I decided he was the perfect person to built my home. “
Reader Obtained Planning Permission for the Home in Summer 2023, but suffered a breakdown in October of this year after anderson repeatedly made excuses to avid finishing the job.
She continued: “He had this charming way about him. He was an expert in kicking things down the road again and again. Butt the end he just stopped Answing my calls and I was it, with my money and was going to be my home.
“I broke down. Pay this person all the money?
Following her experience with Anderson, Reader Dropped Out Training She was completed at the order in order to focus on a different field.
This was because she felt she could not connect the well even in complement operations.
In her heartst time, she shared that she had wished shhe was not alive, and say she would be cured if she was going to live with her to live with her parent.
“I hoped at the time my emotional breakdown might be fatal. It was only my sense of such rage with me to carry this and motivated me to carry on. Throughout this whole episode in my life.
Reader was just contacted by Andrew and denise fitzgerald, who had also fallen prey to Anderson and Were Trying to Make a Case A Case Against Him.
Andrew Said: “I 'Heard of a Property in Wenvoe which Anderson was working on and I found out that Vale's Planning Portal Online. Targeted in the Same Way Were. “
The fitzgeralds had moved to porthcawl to spend their retirement by the sea and live close to family, paying and worship a bungalow and built a new home in it.
He had shared his planning permission credits with Andrew and denise and gave them a quote of £ 219,500 Excluding vat in 2019.
Yet new built homes are exempt from vat and Anderson was not registered to charge the tax in any case.
His first invoice to the fitzgeralds was for £ 83,000 including £ 13,833 VAT.
After completing Very Little Work, Anderson Raised the Total Price, thought an independent surveyor found no more than 40% of the promised work has been done.
That work included a sagging and rotten roof which was thriving to fall in.
Anderson had also failed to pay contracts, leading to the fitzgeralds paying extractions when they todold they had not received.
Denise Said: “He was telling us we can get a discount and a warranty if we pay every way through he was he was pocketing it.”
Anderson appeared at cardiff crown court on Monday Charged with Four Counts of Fraud and One Count of dishonesty by false repression.
His wife Sandie Anderson, 66, was charged with possession of criminal propety for a bank account She Owned which had taken receipt of £ 35,000 her Husband obtained fraudulently.
The course was toold Anderson head at last £ 263,000 from Customers He had scammed but cannot not afford to pay this sum back.
Anderson was jailed for three years and six months, at last half of which will be served in custody.
Sandie Anderson was jailed for 18 Weeks suspected for 12 months, while She Must Also Wear an Electronic Tag Preventing Her from Leaving Home BetWeen 7pm and 6am.
Judge eugene egan saad the defendants left a “trail of misery and caused” decent and hardworking people emotional and financial distress.
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