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A Lurgan trader has been fined and ordered to pay compensation to an elderly couple he took advantage of by carrying out substandard work at their Belfast home.
Damian McCaughley (32), of Princess Street in Lurgan, pleaded guilty to carrying out substandard work at the property, providing false business addresses on paperwork and failing to honour a 10-year guarantee for the work.
In a case brought by the Department for the Economy’s Trading Standards Service (TSS), Mr McCaughley pleaded guilty to a total of four charges under The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.
In June 2018, he cold called the home of pensioner couple in Belfast and offered to carry out work on their home and driveway.