A MAN who was part of a gang that duped a 71-year-old man into paying £371,000 for building work has been made to sell his Warrington property.

Miles Quinn, aged 29, played a role in the gang that got the pensioner from Horsham, West Sussex, to fork out huge sums of money over several years for work that cost no more than £6,000.

Quinn was ordered to sell his home worth £178,000 as well as hand over £24,000 he had in bank accounts.

He was previously jailed for four years back in March 2009 for the offence in Sussex plus a further 20 months to be served consecutively for dishonesty offences in Northampton.

His father Augustin Quinn, aged 57, also known as Gustav Quinn, was also told to sell a house in Stoke, with equity to the value of about £150,000.

He was jailed for three years and four months after he admitted conspiracy to defraud.

The pair, from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, have been ordered to pay the money back in six months or if not it would result extra prison sentences of 30 months for Miles and 27 months for Augustin.

Miles Quinn was also subject of a separate confiscation order for victim of a similar fraud offence in Northampton to which he had pleaded guilty in 2008.

A sum of £3,000 was confiscated and ordered as compensation to be paid to the victim.