A man from Stoke Gifford has been sentenced at Bristol Magistrates Court for offences including aggressive commercial practice, following an investigation by South Gloucestershire Council Trading Standards.
Michael Hammersley, 33, of Court Avenue, Stoke Gifford, traded under the name of MT Builders and appeared at court recently where he pleaded guilty to two offences, after he took £3,450 from a customer and failed to carry out the agreed work.
Hammersley was fined a total of £200, plus a £34 victim surcharge and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £1,350. He was found to have failed to provide his customer with the legally required notice of his 14-day cooling off rights, and then subsequently started work within the same 14-day period.
