A Bridgwater plumber who tried to con an elderly woman out of four hundred pounds ... has been ordered to pay five THOUSAND ... after admitting to fraud.

Gary Coombes tried to charge the woman - who's in her seventies - for work he never carried out ... but she got suspicious and complained to Trading Standards.

Coombes - of Quantock Way - was due to go on trial last week but changed his plea to guilty just before.