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A crook who 'charmed' a family with promises to renovate their home has been convicted of fraud and ordered to pay thousands of pounds. One of his victims said she had been pushed into a state of depression by the situation.

Appearing in Liverpool Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (December 10), Michael Wood, of Rugby Way, Wimborne, Dorset, was sentenced after pleading guilty to five charges under fraud laws and regulations to protect consumers from unfair trading. This was after he took a £2,000 deposit from his victims and did not pay it back despite doing little work.

In 2022, he had presented his victims Katie Pink and her mum Sylvia Hemmings of Darlington Close, Wallasey, with an invoice from NW Development Solutions Ltd, a company he used to work for but no longer had any

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