Victims of a Felixstowe furniture fraudster will have to wait until September to find out how much compensation the jailed director will have to pay out.

David Waters, of Manwick Road, Felixstowe, was the sole director of Anchor Mobility Limited that swindled disabled and elderly customers out of more than £80,000 after they paid for furniture that was never delivered.

The 71-year-old was jailed for 32 months in December 2019 after he and his company Anchor Mobility Limited were convicted of a string of unfair trading offences, brought by Suffolk Trading Standards.

Judge Emma Peters yesterday (Friday) set a confiscation hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act for September so Waters' house in Felixstowe could be valued before she she decide how much his victims will be repaid. but added she was keen for the matter to be resolved as quickly as possible to enable the defendant's elderly victims to be compensated for their losses..

Waters denied fraudulent trading by taking payment without delivering goods, pressurising customers to make purchases, and failing to issue refunds between October 2016 and August 2017.

Waters and Anchor Mobility also denied engaging in an unfair commercial practice which contravened requirements of professional diligence between October 2016 and August 2017.

The company and Waters also denied 13 offences of being engaged in misleading commercial practices by failing to fulfil representations that furniture would be delivered to customers within an agreed time period. Anchor Mobility was fined £1,000 for each count of unfair commercial practice.

Waters, who was convicted of all the offences, was made the subject of a criminal behaviour order and banned from being a company director for 10 years.