A ROGUE roofer has appeared at court yet again after admitting completing unnecessary work on the home of an elderly woman.

Danny Sherwood, 30, pleaded guilty to two counts of engaging in a misleading commercial practice or action in April this year at Bournemouth Crown Court.

It is the third time that the defendant, of Wakely Road in Bournemouth, has appeared before a judge charged with offences relating to his work.

On this occasion, he told the woman – who lives in Northbourne – that her entire roof needed re-felting when only minor work was required.

He also failed to provide her with written notice of her right to cancel the contract at any time.

Prosecuting, Duncan Milne said: “An expert surveyor indicated to the victim that some batons were damp. The defendant said the whole roof needed replacing. I make that clear – I am not saying no work was required at all.”

He said Sherwood had “taken the opportunity” to con “a vulnerable victim”.

“Mr Sherwood has recently finished a custodial sentence for like offending,” he said.

“He was convicted in both 2011 and this year for offences of a similar nature. This is effectively the third set of proceedings brought by a local authority [against Sherwood].”

Judge John Harrow said a pre-sentence report will be prepared before the defendant next appears in court in October.

“The sentence may be imprisonment, it may not,” he said.

“All options are open and I am not making any promises to you at all.”

  • Sherwood last appeared in court in April, where he was found guilty of seven counts of fraud after needlessly removing a chimney at a vulnerable pensioner’s home in Rossmore.

He also drove the 73-year-old woman to a cashpoint to extort more than £1,000 for the work.

In 2011, he admitted engaging in a misleading commercial practice after informing an 86-year-old Ferndown woman that her roof needed £700 of work done. The defendant’s father, 54-year-old Kevin Sherwood, of Wimborne Road, was jailed for a year in January 2013 after damaging the roof of an elderly couple while carrying out minor repairs, and then demanding £7,000 for a new roof to be laid.

Danny Sherwood’s brother – also named Kevin – was given a suspended nine-month prison sentence in 2011 for demanding £3,700 for work on a pensioner’s roof.