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Written by Nigel Gray   
Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:47

Builder rips down family's roof  This story has just hit the headlines, I will hopefully be talking to Royden today to get an interview to find out what happened over this dispute.

But please remember it is a criminal offence so I would not use this method but totally understand how Royden felt because the legal system failed again !!!!

 

 

Builder Royden Toon has been arrested after climbing on to the roof of a family's home in Derbyshire and partially demolishing it following a dispute over payment.

 

Royden Toon, from Skegness, spent five hours tearing materials from the Barlborough house roof until he was talked down by police.

Mr Toon claimed he was taking back his materials after homeowner James Arthur refused to pay fully for his extension.

Mr Arthur said he held back payment until the work was done satisfactorily.

 

The dispute over a £15,000 extension has been running between the two parties for five years.

Witnesses said Mr Toon and another man climbed on to the roof of Mr Arthur's house, off Chesterfield Road, at 0830 BST on Monday and started pulling off tiles, ripping out insulation and breaking off most of the wooden roof joists.

 

A police helicopter and several officers were called to the scene and the area was cordoned off.

Mr Toon initially ignored police requests to come down, according to onlookers, but climbed off the roof after being told he could be prosecuted for criminal damage.

He said: "He wouldn't pay so I went to take my materials back off the roof.

"I gave him a letter telling him what I was going to do, he walked off and that was it."

Mr Arthur said: "We had to terminate his contract." He added the work had not been done satisfactorily and was six months late in completion.

 

"He was on a fixed fee, of which he received just over three quarters of the money and he hadn't got the finances to progress the works satisfactorily."

 

The house was left with a hole in the roof.

 

 

 
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