‘I had no idea what the money was for,’ says roofer Paddy Cleere

A roofer accused of fleecing elderly victims out of £500,000 by overcharging for unnecessary work admitted large amounts of the ‘diseased’ cash came into his account. Patrick Cleere, 66, along with brother William Cleere, 65, and his son-in-law Damien Foley, 40, allegedly defrauded householders as old as 85 between April and September 2016. They are said to have cold-called people to convince them that they homes needed work and presented vastly inflated bills sometimes for jobs they had not even…