Liz Hennessey, 83, from Ashford, was conned out of £150,000 by rogue builders but says 'the damage went far beyond money.' | ...

COWBOY builders who conned vulnerable customers out of more than £1.3million has “ruined” the lives of their victims. Samuel O’Hanlon demanded huge sums of cash from his victims, ...

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 / ...

Get your news delivered straight to you by 7am - sign up to our new Morning Mail newsletter for FREE Do YOU have a story? Email isabella.machin@dailymail.co.uk A builder turned a family's home into a ...

You often see it on television - people who employ cowboy builders and end up with a botched or uncompleted job that costs far more than they imagined. Cathy Stanworth shows us how to avoid them. Did ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Melinda are in Balham to help a pair of newlyweds who had plans to extend their ground floor flat. Following the death of her mother, Sarah and her partner Stuart decided to use the ...