FIRST ON 7: Builder busted for bashing and fire bombing disgruntled former clients
FIRST ON 7: A Sydney builder has been found guilty of attacking a number of disgruntled clients, petrol bombing some of their homes and severely bashing one in an attack caught on camera.
Renowned renovator Bill Issa is in jail for a string of attacks on clients across the city that threatened legal action over the 52-year-old's shoddy work.
One restaurateur suffered retribution at the hands of Issa and two of his mates after complaining about some renovation work.
Wearing hoods and armed with a torch and knuckle-dusters, the thugs hid in the darkness until the client appeared.
They beat the victim as he left a lift, leaving him bloody as they fled into the darkness.
Clients across the city felt Issa's wrath after threatening to complain about his workmanship.
Some were beaten; others had Molotov cocktails made with beer bottles and torn strips of a Bob the Builder bed sheet for wicks thrown at their homes.
One victim told the court of the terror Issa inflicted.
"To be woken up by the smell of petrol stinging your nostrils ... is terrifying to say the least," they said.
"We had our lives threatened and our life turned upside down, simply because a renovation went."
Issa is behind bars, awaiting sentencing next year.
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