A builder accused of defrauding a Sanderstead homeowner by charging him £121,000 for works worth £7,000 is to stand trial next year.Stuart Ackerley, 54, is said to have acted as a so-called cowboy builder with his business Northern Builders by carrying out the "severely substandard … poor quality and slowly executed" work, as well as defrauding the owner of tens of thousands of pounds.During a hearing at Croydon Crown Court today (Monday), he did not formally enter a...
