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'ROGUE TRADER': CHESTERFIELD COMPANY BOSS IS JAILED

By The Newsroom
Published 23rd Aug 2017, 16:45 BST
Updated 11th Sep 2017, 12:42 BST


The case was heard at Nottingham Crown Court.
The boss of a Chesterfield-based mobility company has been jailed for one year
after pleading guilty to unfair trading which left some elderly victims
thousands of pounds out of pocket.

Christopher Carrington, 42, of Longmoor Lane, Sandiacre, was sentenced at Derby
Crown Court last week after pleading guilty to a string of offences at an
earlier hearing.

Carrington ran Peak Healthcare Ltd, which cold-called older people living in
sheltered accommodation across the country, from Liverpool and Wolverhampton to
Birmingham and Leicester.



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The company's staff arranged to visit potential customers to run what they said
were 'sleep clinics', where they demonstrated products and made sales
presentations.



The mainly elderly and vulnerable residents, some aged in their 80s and 90s,
were then encouraged to sign up to buy expensive mobility-type products, such as
memory foam mattresses and rise-and-recline armchairs.



The business then let its customers down by failing to return customers'
deposits when they legally cancelled their contract, not delivering goods
ordered or delivering inferior goods, including a second-hand mattress which
cost £1,000.

One 85-year-old victim ordered a bed for £2,324 and the salesman wrote the
cheque out for her as her hands made it difficult for her to do it.



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The order was cancelled the next day but no refund was received.



The case was brought following an investigation by Derbyshire County Council's
trading standards team.

Officers had been investigating the company, which has now closed down, since
2015.



Carrington was prosecuted because of his role in setting up and running the
business.



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Councillor Carol Hart, the county council's cabinet member for health and
communities, said: "We are extremely pleased that the victims in this case have
seen justice done.

"This company targeted older and vulnerable people and failed to trade honestly
and fairly, letting customers down and leaving them out of pocket, sometimes by
thousands of pounds.

"Crimes like this, where vulnerable people lose significant amounts of money and
are let down, can cause lasting damage, both emotionally and financially.

"We hope this outcome gives some comfort to the victims and their families and
sends out a strong message to rogue traders that we will investigate and take
action when companies fail to abide by the law."



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Carrington pleaded guilty to 11 charges - that the company failed to return five
deposits totalling £5,770 after the contracts were cancelled legally, that four
people didn't get the goods they had paid for, totalling £7,804.55, and inferior
goods totalling £3,309 were received by two other customers.

Sentencing Carrington, Judge Nirmal Shant QC told him that he 'was responsible
for the £16,000 taken from these people'.

She added: "It would have been obvious that your customers would be vulnerable
and elderly.

"Typical was a 93-year-old visited in her gated community and convinced to part
with £1,797 and who was then given the runaround.

"The effects of this must have been obvious."


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