A heartless tradesman defrauded a terminally ill cancer sufferer and his wife out of over £10,000 for work which was never completed.
Andrew Iveson was employed by the couple to carry out renovation work in the garden of their Spennymoor home in September 2020. But despite the 33-year-old taking thousands off the couple for materials, he only turned up a handful of times to carry out work, eventually leaving their garden looking like a "builder's yard."
Even after finding out one of his victims was suffering from terminal brain cancer, Iveson still failed to show up, leading the couple to contact the police after paying him a total of £10,250.
