Teesside Live reported. In July 2017, a council representative turned up at the home saying no application had been submitted and that work should not have started.Thompson eventually left the project after the family complained to Trading Standards, and all attempts to contact him for a refund failed.The Briggs were left living "on a building site" – with their elderly parents Ann and Brian Stothard still in rented accommodation.Thompson was eventually brought to justice and jailed for 13 months and two weeks at Teesside Crown Court last week.The judge said he was using the money to "fund alcohol, drugs and your four mortgages you had to pay." Scott Horsley, a friend of Kelvin, 44, told Teesside Live of the "horrendous" situation and.
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