Two fraudsters previously jailed for their crimes have now been ordered to repay £84,000 to their victims following a successful investigation involving North Yorkshire Trading Standards experts.
Fred Smith, 65, and Mitchell Seedhouse, 30, both of Cleese Park Traveller’s site, Walsall Road, Great Wyrley, Walsall, have today been told to repay £84,09.75 to elderly and vulnerable victims they defrauded between 2014 and 2016 following court action.
Both men were convicted at Teesside Crown Court of conspiracy to defraud in August 2018 and were sentenced to three years and five years’ imprisonment respectively.
That was for defrauding of 27 victims from North Yorkshire, East Riding, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire and Wolverhampton.
The prosecution and subsequent Proceeds of Crime asset confiscation proceedings were brought by Operation Gauntlet, the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Team hosted at our Trading Standards Service.
The Proceeds of Crime Act allows courts to order offenders to repay money they have gained from offending and allowed a judge to make…
