A rogue builder has been jailed for fraud after fleecing an elderly customer with sub-par work.

Alexander Brewis, 42, charged his victim £13,800 to do roofing work and cladding in a bathroom – a service which should have cost around £3,250.

Brewis, who was trading as Storm Roofing and Property Maintenance, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison at Teesside Crown Court on Thursday (March 14).