Driveway pair lack appeal
Driveway conmen Robert Morrison and Paul Towers raked in £2.5million by fleecing victims, including a 94-year-old man whose sight was so bad he couldn’t read his contract.
At one point their business, Resinways, was the most complained about tarmacking and paving business in the country.
West Yorkshire Trading Standards said it was “the worst case that this service has come across in respect of aggressive and unfair trading practices against the elderly.”
In March I reported that Morrison, 36, and Towers, 38, were each jailed for four years and three months. The pair, from Brighouse, West Yorks, appealed against the sentence. Their victims will be pleased to hear that the appeal has been dismissed, the court describing the scam as “persistent and calculating”. PS, cowboy gardener Thomas Gumble, of Tooting, South London, has been jailed for four years after continuing to prey on the elderly, ignoring a court order banning him from cold calling people. Considering that he’s 79, he should know better.