A cowboy builder who ghosted a family after they paid him £38,500 for a job he never finished has been jailed.

Jason Brice, who traded as Creo Creations, told Jaime and Noah Fagan he needed a month off due to ‘mental health’ issues in the middle of a loft conversion to make space for their two sons, who have special needs, in 2022.

The Bristol-based couple say he left the loft in a ‘shoddy’ state – complete with a leaking roof – and ‘vanished’, changing his phone number so they couldn’t reach him.

Brice’s ruse was rumbled after the Fagans found pictures on social media showing him partying at Bristol nightclub Popworld and kicking back at a Somerset seaside holiday park.

She added: ‘After we hadn’t heard from him in ages I just started checking out his Facebook and could see all these

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