Bogus workman jailed over £10,500 scam

A workman who duped an 80-year-old Monsignor out of £10,500 for work on his home that was not needed has been jailed for almost a year.

Alan McAllister, 29, convinced Henry Docherty – who worked with the now Pope Benedict XVI in Rome – he needed work done to his gutters and drains.

However, the bogus worker did not do, or plan on doing, any work to the semi-detached house in Glasgow's Crookston area.

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