A sales manager at an estate agency has been branded as thoroughly dishonest after he pretended to rent out homes which clients were trying to sell.
Andrew Boyne demanded holding fees and advance rent for the houses after taking the keys from the office where he worked in Exeter.
A family were left homeless after they paid a deposit, gave notice on their own rented accommodation, and then discovered that their new home was not available.
Boyne used the Gumtree website to advertise the properties and used a mobile phone to arrange viewings. He conned up to £850 from each of 13 clients and then stopped taking their calls.
They were left with no means of contacting him, although one managed to get their money back after tracing him to the est…
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