A rogue trader from Stafford who conned at least eight people has been given a 16- month custodial sentence suspended for two years, a community order of 150 hours’ unpaid work and must attend 20 Rehabilitation Activity Requirement sessions.
Thirty-six-year-old Neil John Bagnall, of 4 Pitt Street in Stafford, Staffordshire pleaded guilty to offences relating to dishonesty and taking up front payments from customers for building materials and home improvement works that were either not supplied or undertaken or only partially done.
He was sentenced at Stafford Crown Court, pictured above, on Wednesday, July 14 2021.
The case against Bagnall was brought by Staffordshire County Council’s trading standards team which was first notified of his behaviour in September 2018.
The court heard that over a twelve-month period, Bagnall and his company ‘NJB Plastering and Property Maintenance Limited’ caused loss to eight customers totalling £16,152.
In one case, officers received a complaint from a Stafford couple who had paid Bagnall £11,000 in June and July…
