Rogue Coleshill roofer hit with 1,000 legal bill

A rogue roofer has been ordered to pay more than 1,000 after trading standards officers lifted the lid on his dishonest dealings.

Mark Andrew Prentice, from Coleshill, trades as P&P Roofing and pleaded guilty to six offences relating to cold-calling incidents in February and April of this year in the Tile Hill and Tollbar End areas of Coventry.

Nuneaton Magistrates Court heard how Prentice offered to clean gutters or carry out roofing repairs without providing written notice of customers' rights to a seven-day cooling off period.

Prosecutors said Prentice ignored repeated warnings about ensuring residents were given written notice before the start of work at their homes.

The court was told by Andrew Burton, who was prosecuting on behalf of Coventry City Council, that Prentice had been persistently warned by trading standards officers from across the Midlands over the course of the last four years about his failure to give customers information about their rights to cancel.

However, the court heard he continued to do so because he saw it as "an inconvenience".

Prentice was fined 600, ordered to pay 400 costs and a 60 victim surcharge by magistrates on September 24.

Nuneaton Magistrates' Court

One of his victims, Patricia Turner, of Tile Hill, paid 200 for roofing repair work without being told about her right to cancel.

Speaking after the hearing, she said: "After this experience I will always follow the advice given to me by trading standards and will not buy any goods or services from uninvited callers."

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Rogue Coleshill roofer hit with 1,000 legal bill