A cowboy builder who fleeced dozens of elderly people out of thousands of pounds has been banned from carrying out door-to-door sales in the UK. He is also not allowed to make cold calls.
Alan Fitzgerald, 53, has a prolific history of preying on vulnerable pensioners, including a 94-year-old woman who was tricked out of £6,000. He was originally jailed for six years in 2014 for conning 39 elderly victims out of £300,000 by posing as a builder.
But just weeks after being released from prison, Fitzgerald was back cold-calling vulnerable people and swindling them out of cash. Fitzgerald, of Raunds, Northants, admitted 10 further charges relating to exploiting the elderly out of £14,000 and was jailed for 40 months in April 2020.
