Lancashire criminals jailed in September for building, rioting and theft

Summarised from LancsLive's report · Updated 11 Oct, 14:13 · Archive

A cowboy builder, a rioter and a shoplifter were among those jailed in Lancashire in September.

Patrick Hartley, a 51-year-old builder from Bacup, was jailed for three years and nine months after constructing a faulty extension and kitchen for Joanne Dagostina and her husband Anthony. The work cost the family £64,216, but a structural engineer later revealed the house was unsafe, forcing them to demolish the new kitchen to install steel beams. Hartley had accumulated a million pounds in costs and losses across his work.

Separately, Robert Simpson, 36, with no fixed abode, was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison at Blackburn Magistrates' Court on 29 September. Simpson was arrested by plain-clothes officers at a Shell Service Station on Trafalgar Street in Burnley during a proactive police operation targeting shoplifting. He had been identified as a suspect for multiple thefts.

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In this story: Patrick Hartley · Joanne Dagostina · Robert Simpson · Lancashire · Bacup · Burnley · Blackburn Magistrates' Court

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