Locksmiths Manchester Company have been fightin to keep the rogue traders from our doorsteps…they still exist!

Mark Makowski, aged 40, from Broxbourne, Herts was convicted of 15 counts of fraud, costing members of the public thousands of pounds.  Makowski operated as an emergency locksmith trading as Pronto Locks Ltd with a business address based in Herts and operating across the south-east.
 
He was convicted  of 15 counts of fraud relating to 11 out of 88 complaints, mainly in the London area.  He was also banned from being a company director for five years.  Leading up to this court appearance, Makowski has already brushed with the law; in 2000 Aaron Locksmith Ltd was convicted of two offences of giving misleading price indications to customers at Enfield Magistrates  Court while Makowski was company secretary.  The company changed its name to Phoenix Locksmith on June 16 2003, following Makowski’s first appearance on BBC Rogue Traders four days earlier.  Makowski was convicted at Hertford Magistrates of five charges of giving misleading indications on September 5, 2003.

Still an unregulated market place – and should be looked at quickly said a spokesperson from Locksmiths Manchester Company.

Makowski was fined a total of £2,100 and ordered to pay £3,759.27 prosecution costs.  By April 2004 he had been served with a permanent  injunction for harassing a BBC local radio journalist  who investigated him in 2000.  In October 2006 he was convicted in his absence of four counts of giving misleading price indications at West Hertford Magistrates.  So no small wonder he is now ‘doing porridge’ – 4 years, less 50% off for good behaviour.  So a long holiday for him – then when he gets out.

For more information contact the director of Locksmiths Manchester.