included<\/a> the expense of putting the work right.<\/p>\nSub-contractors would often harass customers for payment because Nicholls had not paid for their work either.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The rogue builder\u00a0was caught after his customers told trading standards officers he would take money from them upfront for work that was never completed and in some cases never even started.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When questioned by police, he admitted having no formal building work qualifications and said his background was in estate agency and sales.<\/p>\n
A fake builder who scammed 11 people out of more than \u00a31million and eVDEN Eve NaKliYat left families with wrecked homes has been jailed for EVdeN EVE nAkLiyat three years. Richard Nicholls, 38, an estate agent and salesman,\u00a0had no experience in construction when he started taking on the building work. He\u00a0left his victims – many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5037],"tags":[5078],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76935,"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76934\/revisions\/76935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}