A ROGUE doorstep trader has been ordered to repay £12,000 to his victims.
Shane Hudson, 27, carried out poor-quality driveway improvements in Selston and Long Eaton for a company called Capital Drives.
The driveways were often of a poor design with inadequate drainage and foundations and used weak cement to hold the block paving together.
Hudson failed to give his customers written cancellation rights to and failed to return to rectify problems after claiming the work was guaranteed for five years.
Jeff Addison, 63, of Selston, agreed for Hudson to block pave his driveway and patio area for £4,900.
He has so far spent £500 to improve drainage on the patio but both the drive and patio need ripping up.
Mr Addison said: "I feel I've been completely taken for a ride. I'm no fool as I was once a salesman and a magistrate but I was completely taken in by his pressurised sales techniques."
Hudson pleaded guilty to four counts of unfair trading between November 2011 and February 2012 and was sentenced by Nottingham magistrates yesterday.
He received a 150-hour community order and was ordered to pay back £12,000 to four victims – three of them elderly Selston residents.
Hudson, of Wades Avenue, Bobbersmill, must also attend a course which addresses thinking and behaviour connected to offending.
