here"What you did was despicable."Your victims were entitled to be left to live their lives in peace - and to be treated with respect."But you sought to defraud them, and intimidated one of them."How low can a person get?"Manchester Crown Court heard that Ward, from Clayton, knocked on the front door of a house in Blackley, where a woman had lived alone for 10 years after her husband had passed away.At about 11.30am on Sunday, June 7, Ward told her he had been doing some work on guttering next door and, as a result, some water was coming into the guttering at her home.Ward, who didn't have any tools with him, said he could fix her guttering for £45.When the woman said she didn't want to pay, Ward said he could reduce the price by £10.
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