Police declare Allan Jason Dean Howard pocketed virtually $80,000 in deposits then vanished with out doing the work.
What was meant to be a dream renovation become a expensive nightmare for Piero Staci.
“We have now no financial savings anymore, which we’d have in any other case,” he advised 9News.
The Cooloongup father-of-two refinanced the household dwelling, paying a tradesman a $21,000 deposit for the job.
However on the day work was meant to start out, the tradie by no means confirmed up.
“He mainly pulled all the pieces he might pull out to delay: ‘I could not decide up’. ‘I used to be busy’. ‘I used to be sick’,” Staci alleged.
Police allege that tradie was Howard, buying and selling as Allan’s Plastering.
Shopper Safety says it is acquired 11 complaints about the identical man, with claimed losses of virtually $79,000.
Clients from Mindarie to Cooloongup declare they paid upfront however the work was by no means completed.
Howard confronted Armadale Magistrates Court docket yesterday charged with stealing and forging a doc. He’s but to enter a plea.
The alleged victims might by no means get their a reimbursement however they hope their warning prevents others from being scammed.
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