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“Scott Saxby took a £5,000 deposit for repairs to my roof. He also persuaded me to open a Howdens account and ordered goods for himself on my credit. He never started the work and I have never received a penny back from him. I am 85 years old."
"Mr. Saxby took over £4,000 for home renovations. He told us his pregnant wife was very unwell. He said the family were spending a lot of time 'up Great Ormond Street'. We never saw him, or our money, again. We are a hardworking family who had a young baby at the time."
"Scott Saxby spent months befriending us. He told us he had a daughter the same age as ours called Violet, who he had made up. He went out of his way to gain our trust. All the while he was waiting for our mortgage to come in. When we paid him a big depost for our kitchen extension, we never saw him again. We are a working family with a young toddler."
"We paid him £14,000 to extend out kitchen and turn our garage into a workshop for my husband, who is a carpenter. He had been recomended to us. We handed over the money and never saw him again. He told us he was living out of his car. We later found out this was a complete lie. We are a working family with two young children."
"I am full time carer for my mother, who is elderly and has dementia. Mr. Saxby waited until I was out one day and then knocked on our door, knowing we needed roof repairs. She said she did not use online banking and would prefer him to return when I was home. He persuaded her to find her chequebook, wrote himself a cheque and had her sign it. He later threatened to push taratantulas through our letterbox and set fire to our property."
"We paid Scott Saxby a deposit for building a patio. He strung us along for months, telling us his Dad has died, then that he was collecting the ashes, then that he had Covid. He never did the work and we are still waiting for our money back. We are a working family with two small children and we have still not managed to afford the repairs to our patio so it is safe for our children to play on."
“Scott Saxby was recomended to us by a carpet fitter. We needed mobility adaptations to our house as we are elderly and my wife has limited mobility. Mr. Saxby spent ages chatting with us, cracking jokes. He returned with a bouquet of flowers for my wife, and told us if we paid cash it would speed things along. We gave him £2,800 in cash. We never saw him again."
"Scott Saxby was awarded a big job. He kept the deposit. When I began court claims against him he wrote to all the other freeholders in the building, slandered me and mocked my disability. The ensuing drama meant I lost my flat and every one of those freeholders fell out after 20 years, and have now had to sell up."
"We paid Scott Saxby nearly £3,000 as a deposit to refit our kitchen. He strung us along for weeks and told us that one of his children had died. We never saw him again.
"He saw my work van in a petrol station and asked me to do some plastering for him. He never paid me a penny. He's ripped off so many tradesmen. Plumbers, electricians. Hardworking people with families.
"Scott Saxby rented a flat from me and never paid a penny in rent. He trashed the place when he left, stripping out kitchen units and furniture to use on jobs. I took pity on him and his family and was doing him a favour renting him a place.
"Mr Saxby took a large deposit from me and then told me his baby and wife were really sick in Great Ormond Street. He has never finished the work or repaid us a penny. I am a pensionser.
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