Roofers ‘swindled elderly and vulnerable out of £500k’

A gang of roofers scammed elderly and vulnerable victims out of £500,000 in just six months by overcharging for unnecessary work, a court heard Patrick Cleere, 66, William Cleere, 65, and Damien Foley, 40, allegedly defrauding victims across London areas and Essex between April and September 2016. They cold-called householders to convince them that they homes needed work and presented vastly inflated bills sometimes for jobs they had not even carried out. One victim lost £129,000, jurors at Inner London…