A building contractor's shoddy work left five Bristol customers losing £184,000. Bristol Crown Court heard Simon Robbins' work was so bad it left some people living in homes which were close to collapse.
Robbins, 44, of Goffenton Drive in Fishponds, pleaded guilty to engaging in misleading commercial practice. The recorder Mr Adam Vaitilingam KC handed him an eight months jail term, suspended for two years. Robbins was also given a 10-year Criminal Behaviour Order designed to stop reoffending.
The recorder told Robbins: "The catalogue of misery you brought to people continued for over a year. It was reckless, misleading, fraudulent and repeated over a number of customers."
