One of Britain's 'worst cowboy builders' is jailed for fleecing 13 families out of £700,000 after unfinished work left water pouring through ceilings and windowless walls standing on stilts

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Patrick Damien Hartley, 52, left his victims with little choice but to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to repair his botched work.

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