He used the cash from the 10 victims to pay off gambling debts and ‘keep women keen’
A crooked windows company boss conned 10 trusting elderly customers out of a total of nearly £40,000 by using high-pressure sales patter to persuade them to pay in advance for work that was never completed. Serial fraudster Jonathon O’Grady had money problems as well as a gambling addiction and he also needed plenty of cash to “keep women keen” by splashing out on “lavish trips and holidays” for them, Hull Crown Court heard.
He had a history of dishonesty and he had earlier been part of a high-profile scam involving a group of rogue builders who used a…