No jail for man who charged elderly woman €43,000 for repairs worth €1,800

A Meath man who charged a 78-year-old woman more than €43,000 for repairs to leaking gutters on her roof when it should have cost just €1,800 has escaped a jail sentence.

Twenty-seven-year-old Stephen Coffey, previously of Beech Drive, Navan and now living in Sweden, received a two-year suspended sentence today at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.