The trial of a building company director accused of providing false building work completion certificates during the sale of 36 flats in a Suffolk town has got underway.

Before Ipswich Crown Court on Monday ( July 1) was Wayne Murfet, 39, of Freckenham Road, Ely and Lord Homes Ltd and Murfet’s ( Burroughs Green) Ltd.

Murfet has denied making or supplying articles for use in fraud on or before October 11, 2018, in relation to 36 false certificates of completion of building works, intending they would be used in the conveyancing of 36 flats at 146-148 High Street, Newmarket.

He has also denied a similar charge in relation to a house at the Paddocks, Brinkley Road, Burroughs Green, Newmarket

Murfet and Lors Homes Ltd have also denied also 12 charges of fraud by failing to disclose to the purchasers of six flats at 146-148 High Street that building works had not been certified as complete by the building control department of West Suffolk Council.

Murfet and Murfet (Burrough Green) Ltd also denied failing to disclose to the purchaser of a plot at Brinkley Road, Burroughs Green, Newmarket that building works at the property had not been certified as complete by the building control department of East Cambridgeshire District Council.

The offences are alleged to have been committed between October 2018 and August 2019.

A jury was empanelled at Ipswich Crown Court on Monday and the trial, which expected to last two weeks, will now be heard at Colchester Magistrates’ Court.