A builder who broke his bankruptcy order by taking thousands of pounds in deposits before carrying out substandard work has received a suspended jail sentence.
Exeter Crown Court heard that James Prentice, 41, of Kingsbridge, Devon, was declared bankrupt in 2014 but was allowed to continue working through his company JSP Woodworx, provided he did not take more than 500 as a deposit without saying he was bankrupt. The Insolvency Service found Prentice took more than 600,000 in deposits for work over an 18-month period without mentioning his bankruptcy order.
On one project, he was paid more than 271,000 between June 2016 and January 2018 to build a retirement home for a couple in their late 60s in Taunton. They dismissed him after findin…
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