A ROGUE trader who drove an 86-year-old woman to a bank so she could withdraw £1,400 to pay him for work he had not carried out, has been ordered to pay her compensation.

Steven Davies, 26, was sentenced on Friday at Oxford Magistrates’ Court after being found guilty in December of two offences under the Fraud Act and three offences under the Business Names Act.

Davies was employed by the pensioner in 2008, to wash the windows of her home in Alexandra Road, West Oxford.

Davies told the woman her guttering needed replacing, and she was driven to a bank to withdraw money.

Davies, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, and previously of Burford Road, Chipping Norton, gave her paperwork falsely stating the guttering had been replaced.

He later returned and told her that her window frames needed repairing and painting. She paid him a further £800. The work was not finished.

Davies also worked on a property in Kingston Road, North Oxford, during which the roof was damaged. He agreed to repair it, but never did.

He was sentenced to 12 months for each fraud charge, to run concurrently, suspended for 12 months. He also received a 12-month supervision order, a three-month curfew, and was ordered to pay £930 compensation to his 86-year-old victim.