Solar panel salesmen were swindlers

A serial fraudster who helped run a sham investment company that defrauded 1,500 elderly customers out of £17m breached his licence when he was let out of jail by changing his name. David Black, 40, was previously jailed along with five others, including brother Ludovic Black, for selling solar panels to their victims, through their Manchester company. Father-of-two Black, also known by the surnames Hardie, Diaz and Stark, was part of a gang of fraudsters who used misleading sales techniques…