Media Releases

A rogue builder has been sentenced to 240 hours of unpaid work after failing to meet appropriate standards while building an extension in Halesowen.

A rogue carpenter has been prosecuted and ordered to pay costs of more than £1,300 after failing to deliver goods to a Dudley consumer.

A Dudley shop has been ordered to close after it was found to be selling illegal cigarettes and vapes to the public.

Two brothers have been ordered to pay more than £11,000 by a court after attempting to scam unsuspecting customers into having new boilers fitted.

A rogue landscape gardener from Kingswinford took more than £9,000 from two customers for work he never carried out, a court heard.

A Dudley resident has been sentenced for illegally breeding and selling dogs and was ordered to pay £7,928 in costs.

A rogue motor trader convicted for selling a “death trap” car patched it up before taking thousands from another unsuspecting customer for it, a court heard.

A Stourbridge car dealer who sold a “dangerous and unroadworthy” vehicle has been ordered to pay nearly £20,000 by a court.

A Dudley trader who admitted stealing £1,150 for a garden job he never did has been ordered to pay almost double that amount in costs through the courts.

A rogue trader who carried out poor work to a Brierley Hill home and deceived a Dudley borough resident has been sentenced at Walsall Magistrates Court.

A Stourbridge woman has been successfully prosecuted by Dudley Council under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 for running a puppy sale business illegally.

Two rogue traders who fleeced an elderly Dudley borough man for almost £30,000 of shoddy roof work were sentenced in court yesterday.