Skegness fraudster Jack David Turner ordered to pay £15k in compensation at £50 a month after running scam through business TR Fencing Services

A fraudulent trader has been ordered to pay thousands in compensation after scamming customers.

Jack David Turner, from Skegness, ran TR Fencing Services from 2020 until 2023 offering landscaping, fencing and building work.

However, Lincolnshire Trading Standards took the 25-year-old to Boston Magistrates' Court on Monday, January 27 where he was ordered to pay £15,018.96 in compensation to his victims for taking payments of up to £4,200 and never carrying out any jobs.

Due to his current limited income, it was agreed that Turner would pay £50 a month - which, at that rate, will take him 25 years to pay back.

The rogue trader pleaded guilty to eight counts of fraud and is now under a 12-month suspended sentence.

He will also undertake 15 days of rehabilitation activity and 200 hours of unpaid work.

Rebecca Money, senior Trading Standards officer at Lincolnshire County Council, said: “The council’s Trading Standards team is committed to investigating traders who are unlawfully exploiting consumers.

"I’m grateful to all the witnesses for their support in this case.

"Turner’s fraudulent trading had an enormous detrimental impact on them all.”