Disabled pensioner reduced to tears by cruel door-to-door scammer
dailyrecord.co.ukA disabled pensioner was left reduced to tears by a team of cruel door-to-door scammers who forced her to get her drive refurbished for a whopping £7k then left it destroyed.Isabelle Webster from Manchester was in her home when the two cowboy builders targeted her and would not leave her alone until she agreed to the shoddy work.The 73-year-old had been receiving a grocery delivery at the time.
She is housebound due to chronic ME, which makes getting to the supermarket near-impossible.Luckily months after the ordeal one local tradesman felt so bad he rallied around suppliers and did the job to repair the front of her house for free.Speaking to the Manchester Evening News she said: “He looked at the driveway and said it needed doing.
It probably did, but it was the last thing on my agenda. "He asked if his boss could come and give me a quote and I said no again.
He asked me to turn my phone on so the boss could phone me.“I said I wasn’t well, my phone was off and I wasn’t feeling up to it today.
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