Take that! Builder's [pounds sterling]15,000 revenge; 4 Tenant Anita Dovey leaves in silence 1 What goes up must come down: One of builder Nigel Gray's workmen attacks the porch with a sledgehammer 2 With one side nearly gone, the roof sags 3 Then it crashes on the mound of rubble.

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: April 23, 2008 | Copyright information

THIS is how a builder got his own back after a customer failed to payfor a conservatory and porch he built her at a cost of [pounds sterling]15,000.

Nigel Gray sent in his workmen to demolish the porch with sledgehammers anddismantle and remove the conservatory.

It took Mr Gray, 44, a week to do the work at the council house in Shoreham,West

Sussex, just before Christmas. But the customer, Anita Dovey, missed paymentdeadlines, and according to Mr Gray she even claimed her husband had died toavoid paying, even though he lives at the threebedroom house.

Realising ...

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