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Thursday 6 Mar 2014 5:24 PM

Written byRAYMOND BROWN

A Cambridge rogue trader will now do some honest work after he admitted fraud and money laundering.

Jason Pateman, 23, of Fen Road, Cambridge has been sentenced to six months imprisonment suspended for 18 months after he pleaded guilty to the offences committed in Cambridgeshire. He was ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work in the next 12 months, pay 440 compensation and pay 500 towards prosecution costs.

Pateman, who trades as Total Property Maintenance, preyed on older and vulnerable residents, finding customers by cold calling at their doors offering home maintenance services. He offered anything from roof repairs and gutter cleaning to garden wall maintenance, with work frequently being of a substandard quality.

This case follows an earlier prosecution of Pateman by Cambridgeshire Trading Standards in 2010 for failing to provide seven-day cancellation notices to his customers. Despite being given a conditional discharge in that case, Pateman has continued to carry out his activities without providing the requisite seven-day cancellation notices to his customers. These notice requirements are there to protect customers from high pressure selling, allowing them time to consider whether they really want work done.

Cllr Mathew Shuter, the county councils trading standards chief, said Rogue traders such as Jason Pateman prey on some of Cambridgeshires most vulnerable residents, winning their trust with their friendly manner, and then taking their savings in exchange for shoddy, unnecessary work and deprive honest traders of work.

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One of Laguna Beachs rare private refuges for local homeless people to find a permanent place to live was recently ordered closed by city officials, displacing five people back to the street and confounding homeless advocates.

The five residents living at the row of rooms in a mobile trailer in Laguna Canyon once used as a construction-site office had to leave, according to city code inspectors, because the area was not zoned for residential use. Among them was Cliff Mabra, a longtime local street musician who had to vacate the room he was living in for three years at Palmer Masonry and died last December.

Business operator Sam Palmer had been renting rooms near a cluster of commercial businesses to disadvantaged people for about six years. He believes a former tenant filed a complaint with the citys code enforcement department, which informed Palmer he was in violation of commercial zoning regulations that prohibit residential use.

Palmer rented out five 100-square-foot rooms, subdividing the former construction office trailer. It included a communal kitchen, bathroom and laundry room. Code inspector Fred Fix said the rooms were closed last October.

Land owner Franz Visoul of Idaho agreed with Palmer not to fight City Hall and to close the rooms. The most obvious code violation, Fix said, was a portable metal cargo bin, a sixth room that had been converted to a housing unit with a window, French doors, insulation to protect against the suns heat and electricity.

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The loss disappointed Jim Keegan, a local homeless advocate, who offered Palmer legal assistance if he wanted to keep the rooms open. Palmer declined.

The city makes things more difficult for themselves, said Keegan, who initiated a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union against the city in 2009 that alleged the citys ban on overnight sleeping on public land was unconstitutional. The resulting settlement led the city to provide an alternative; hence the establishment of the Alternative Sleeping Location on Laguna Canyon Road. Some people have been able to get a van or something to sleep in at night instead of being on the beach but the police harass them anyway, said Keegan. Its kind of self-defeating.

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