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A man who fraudulently charged a pensioner with dementia more than £40,000 for carrying out minor work on his garden has been jailed. Elliot Shaw, of Tolney Lane, Newark carried out a number of small jobs at the 88-year-old man’s home address over the course of several months in 2022, including removing a greenhouse, painting window frames and trimming bushes with all of the work carried out being of a poor standard. The fraud came to light when a member of bank staff alerted police after the victim attempted to get a loan to pay Shaw for some of the work. Checks found that transactions made b…