Two motor traders who made up to £100,000 buying insurance write-offs and selling them to consumers ‘sold as seen’ face a potential jail sentence.

The pair had been advertising and selling hundreds of cars that had been written off by insurance companies via Autotrader and Gumtree under a range of different trading names in a scam thought to be worth £100,000.

West Sussex County Council’s trading standards team discovered the pair were systematically selling vehicles without declaring that they had been written off to unsuspecting customers, they were also falsifying service histories in order to make the vehicles appear more attractive to buyers and giving customers the impression that they were dealing with a private seller.

The court was told that the pair also described the vehicles as “sold as seen” on purchase invoices to try and avoid liability under civil legislation for the sale of faulty or misdescribed goods, reported ITV News.

Linda Atrell of Railway Approach, East Grinstead was convicted at a Brighton Crown Court trial of breaching the Fraud Act, Forgery and Counterfeiting Act and Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations Act.

Lucien Munn of Beechey Way, Copthorne had previously pleaded guilty to similar offences.

A Proceeds of Crime Act application was made to confiscate money made from the criminal activity. The pair will be sentenced on July 31 and have been warned that they could face a jail sentence.