For the latest Rochdale news sign up to the MyRochdale newsletter here Three conmen who sold dodgy fish 'unfit for human consumption' out the back of a van have been jailed.
Matthew Dudding, 32, Paul Dudding, 60, and Daniel Whitley, 44, bullied the elderly and the vulnerable into buying huge amounts of poor quality seafood at exorbitant prices.
A court heard they conned more than 100 elderly victims out of £325,000, ChronicleLive reports. The fraudsters deliberately targeted vulnerable and older people living in the North of England and the Midlands.
As the Manchester Evening News reported in June 2019, an un-refrigerated van full of fish was seized from the men in Castleton in Rochdale following reports they were 'pressuring' pensioners
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