COWBOY builders who conned vulnerable customers out of more than £1.3million has “ruined” the lives of their victims. Samuel ...

A hundred miles away, in Surrey, we visit another homeowner whose property has been wrecked by a builder. Steve Higgs, who is paralysed from the chest down, has been living in an ...

One of Britain's most prolific cowboy builders has been jailed after fleecing 37 victims out of more than £1.25million. Mark Killick, who was known to customers as Marc Cole, committed "fraud on an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andy Clarke and his wife Lisa were defrauded out of over £100,000 by a builder who has now been jailed. (SWNS) (Charley Atkins / ...

A Kent widow who was conned out of almost £150,000 said her late husband was driven out of his home by a cowboy builder. Two men have been convicted of fraud following an eight-week trial, after ...

A father has revealed how a "cowboy builder" left his family living in a "death trap on stilts" and cost them £125,000 following a disastrous extension project. Ryan Ward, 37, and his wife - who ...

A father-and-son team of cowboy builders bullied, intimidated and scammed homeowners out of hundreds of thousands of pounds, a court has heard. Jim Janes and his son, Thomas James, targeted people ...

Home owners in the UK are so frightened of being ripped off by a cowboy builder that a third don’t bother getting the work done, new research has found. If everyone had more confidence in the building ...

Dom and Mel face one of their toughest challenges yet: dealing with a builder who may well offer the worst value for money in Britain. The problem is, no one knows where he is... Christophe and Debra ...