Dodgy builder who cost London homeowners£1million and splurged their cash gambling jailed for 3 year

Richard Nicholls spent went home fragmented and constrained them to dish out thousands to fix it
Richard Nicholls was condemned to three years in prison at Inward London Crown Court on December 23.

A dodgy developer who cost London property holders over £1 million subsequent to finishing messed up home enhancements has been secured for a very long time. Richard Nicholls requested that clients pay him front and center for occupations and materials however at that point went overboard great many pounds of their cash on his internet betting propensity, a court heard.

Property holders, the majority of them in Southwark, were left with incomplete augmentations and other fragmented building work, which they needed to burn through countless pounds amending.
This is the condition of one kitchen that Richard Nicholls left

The 35-year-old is assessed to have cost his 11 casualties £1.1 million somewhere in the range of 2016 and 2018, Inward London Crown Court heard today (Friday, December 23). Yet, Nicholls, who went to his condemning wearing a larger than usual coat, orange pants and multi-hued New Equilibrium mentors, will currently spend Christmas in a correctional facility.

Giving over his sentence to Nicholls for four extortion charges, Mr J M Mulholland KC said Nicholls' plan was 'deceptive' all along'.

Mr Mulholland KC said: "You had no insight of building at all and I have been informed you had been filling in as a domain specialist in Surrey. You say you depended on others, that is not relief by any stretch of the imagination. [… ] Not one venture was finished whereupon you locked in.

"I value that others let you down and others that you depended on didn't finish the work. The
Truth is the agreement was with you. You took the cash. You participated in the good faith of these individuals and you took their cash."

Nicholls of Hotspur Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, was captured after a portion of his casualties detailed him toward the Southwark Chamber's Exchanging Principles group.
Two of Nicholls' casualties, Owen Rees and his significant other, Rosie Crude Rees had to sell their family home and pass on London to repay a credit taken out to address messed up building work at their property in Camberwell.

He said: "The pressure brought about by his eagerness and
Sheer clumsiness as a structure project worker made my better half endure fits of anxiety while intensely pregnant with our most memorable child.

"We needed to get the cash taken by Richard from our family to finish the task, which eventually implied offering the house and passing on London to repay the credit. Had we not had this help, we would have lost everything."
Richard Nicholls will spend Christmas 2022 in the slammer

Another couple, Elizabeth Walker and Steve Walker, had to prepare dinners in a microwave in their lounge room for a really long time subsequent to building work to their kitchen more than once over-ran, the court heard. At a certain point their family needed to move out of their home into impermanent convenience for a month in light of the fact that the house was in a terrible condition, the court heard.
In any case, when they returned, there was no water or power. Nicholls never completed the work and the Walkers needed to pay new manufacturers £10,000 to figure out the wreck left by him.

In a casualty influence proclamation read out in court, Mrs Walker said: "I have needed to forfeit treats For my kids, summer occasions and trips Which were a significant piece of our live. [… ] It Will defer our retirement."

Another client Anne Marie-Sim gave Nicholls £90,000 direct front, just to be informed he

Couldn't get done with their task until he had been paid For another task. She needed to spend an extra £150,000 revising Nicholls' work.

In her casualty influence explanation read out in court, she said: "The fallout was amazingly upsetting. The monetary effect was colossal - however past this, the effect ventured into all parts of our lives. The house was unliveable, with expanding openings all over."
It was said, during one episode, Nicholls constrained his direction into a client's property and compromised them after they dropped out with him over the sluggish advancement of building work. At the point when clients grumbled, Nicholls would put issues on family issues, including a guardianship fight over his child with an alienated ex-accomplice, the court heard.
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