A lady was imprisoned for allowing her kitchen to be used as a phony display home in an £800,000 construction fraud. Louise Shiangkwang, 50, was sentenced to a year in prison with no possibility of parole for her role in the scheme. After her kitchen in Lancing, West Sussex, was used as a phony display home, she pled guilty to fraud. Two individuals were previously sentenced to 11 years in prison to defraud victims through Contemporary Home Improvements Ltd.
Shiangkwang received a 22-month sentence with a two-year suspension. Brian Tutton, 62, of Ashford, Kent, and Scott Parker, 50, of Portsmouth, was found guilty of defrauding 61 people out of £831,170 at Snaresbrook Crown Court.
Shiangkwang had misrepresented the work done in her kitchen by Brian Tutton when a neighbor did it. According to the Metropolitan Police, she was compensated for enabling Tutton to use her residence.
For impersonating the firm’s architect, a third guy, David Gogo, was also given a suspended sentence. The fraud was discovered after a flurry of complaints about the company, prompting Trading Standards and the Metropolitan Police to investigate. Shiangkwang was also ordered to perform 160 community service hours and pay a £140 victim surcharge by the court at Snaresbrook Crown Court.