Cowboy Builder's Nightmare Kitchen Extension

0:00On April 26, a couple and Essex hired Builder Steve Figg for a kitchen extension on their forebedroom home, but it turned into a total disaster. The work was so Boschie risk collapsing the first floor, left no drinking water or back doors, and let rats run wild, terrorizing their three. Kids, when they kept pushing him to fix it, he flipped the script and accused them of harassment. Figg claimed health issues like cancer to stall, but council inspector shut it down fast, condemning the unsafe foundations and non-compliant build. The family showed out 75,000 pounds total, including 28,000 for repairs by someone else who finally finished in. December last year. Four cops showed up, arrested Lucy and Rob Davies and held them 22 hours at the station. Fingerprinted, DNA swabbed, the works. Lucy, on maternity leave, spent her first night away from her breastfeeding baby and now battles PTSD from the ordeal. They got a formal apology from police after proving their innocence.

1:01In court, the judge called Figg a straight up cowboy builder for 22 regulation breaches. The 35-year-old cop to it got a suspended 12-month sentence, six months on an electronic tag, and had to pay the couple 85,000 pounds in compensation. He's under probe for messing over four other families too. New building laws are cracking down harder, post-Grenfeld with real deterrence like jail time and quick enforcement. The Davies are healing, learning to love their fixed up dream home again while hoping others dodged these shady contractors.