A serial conman has been caged for duping a pensioner out of thousands of pounds for unnecessary work on her home.
Brian Khan, 28, told the lone 70-year-old woman that she needed urgent work carried out on her roof.
Khan, of Hamilton, Lanarkshire, and an unidentified accomplice went to the home of the woman, who we have chosen not to name, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, last October.
They told her the vital work would cost £2,700 and that she had to pay a £200 deposit, which she handed over to Khan's accomplice.
They returned two days later and spent around an hour on her roof, working on the tiles, and she gave them the rest of the cash.
But staff at her bank raised concerns due to the large amount she had withdrawn from her account.
After speaking to a neighbour, who'd seen Khan and his fellow crook 'working' on the roof, she called in police.
The woman and her neighbour were able to identify Khan from a picture board and a roofer from the council attended.
He said a small number of tiles had been repointed and that one tile had been replaced.
But it had been replaced with the wrong type and had to be replaced again.
He deemed the work unnecessary and said the woman had also been overcharged for the botched job.
Khan admitted his guilt over the scheme when he appeared in the dock at Paisley Sheriff Court last week.
Khan, who has three previous convictions for fraud and three for attempted fraud, pled guilty to a charge of obtaining £2,700 by fraud.
His not guilty pleas were accepted to two other charges of obtaining a total of £640 from two other Paisley residents by fraud.
Sheriff Gillian Craig jailed Khan for 18 months, backdated to November last year, when he was first remanded in custody over the case.
In 2015 he was jailed for five years for conning elderly people out of thousands of pounds for repairs that he never carried out.
The then-21-year-old was snared as part of Police Scotland’s Operation Doric, which tackled doorstep crime.
He defrauded a vulnerable 78-year-old woman in Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire, of more than £15,000, duped an 85-year-old widower out of £2,250 for work that did not need done, and conned an 82-year-old widow, from Bellshill, out of £1,200.
His ruse only fell apart when she called in police after refusing to pay a further £2,500 he'd asked her for.
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