A crooked builder conned customers out of £43,000 by lying about work that was never completed - leaving one home without a ROOF.
The cowboy builder, 44, tried to hide what he was doing by channelling the money he was given into his nephew’s bank account. His principle victim was Radcliffe and Nashreen Ogier, who owned a property in Selly Park Road which they wanted to extend in summer 2013. They found Devlin’s firm on the internet and were quoted a price of £160,000 and agreed stage payments of £5,000, which went into Dunn’s account.
The work started in October 2013 and was due to be completed by June 2014.
But in May 2014, Devlin told the owners there were brickwork and delivery problems - and their home remained without a roof as winter approached.
Eventually the work began again, but the couple ended up paying a further £3,700 to an architect and structural engineer. They also had to borrow further funds to get the work completed and were forced to live in homes of relatives.
Devlin was due to be sentenced Tuesday afternoon.
