A video of fraudulent builders mocking one of their “very old” victims has been released.

The video is from the phone of one of the three builders who given prison sentences for fraud on April 13.  

The builders did ‘worthless’ work for huge sums and preyed on elderly victims.

Matty Rossiter, aged 18, and James Rossiter, aged 24, pleaded guilty to participating in a fraudulent business and fraud by false representation on 24 June last year.

The third man, Dean Smith, aged 21 pleaded guilty on 25 July last year to participating in a fraudulent business.

The charges were for unnecessary and overpriced work carried out at 18 properties. Customers aged between 44 and 90 were defrauded out of approximately £45,000, with many also having to pay out more to have the work put right.

The biggest losses were £9,000, £8,500 and £5,000.

Matty Rossiter was sentenced to two years and three months in prison, James Rossiter was sentenced to three years and four months in prison and Dean Smith was sentenced to three years in prison.

Wiltshire Council put the video from the phone up on their Public Protection Service Facebook page.

It is filmed from the roof of the victim’s house.

The builder filming says: “As you can see we are doing some roofing work here. We’re doing some bodging.”

He then films the victim, John, and says: “As you can see the guy who we’re working for, he’s really old."

He calls over to him: “John we’re having quite a lot of money for this aren’t we. We want to do you a good job. It’s worth doing right isn’t it? It’s your home isn’t it? You need to live in it so you don’t want any more problems after we’re gone do you?”

While he calls out another builder starts to put his arm around John.

He goes back to filming the roof and says: “As you can see here, we don’t need to pay thousands for advertisement. It’s on the door-to-door knocking. It’s what I’ve done for all my life, and we find guys like this every day. The door-to-door knocking, it’s the way forward.”

Wiltshire Council worked with the National Trading Standards to prosecute the men.

If you believe you have been the victim of a rogue trader, call the Citizens Advice consumer helpline on 0808 223 1133.