My mother in law lived with her mother as a full time carer.
Just before Christmas I told the lovely people on OT that her brother assaulted her, my wife and my then 18 months old child, he was given two cautions. Shortly after this her mother died. My mother in Law moved back in with her husband now that her mother wasn't around to care for. When she went round to get her stuff from her mothers house she found all the locks changed. We told her to break in but she decided to ask the solicitor. The solicitor was useless as fuck. He requested a key from her brothers solicitors. They said no. She got a locksmith of her own, went down there and got the door opened to find all her belongings, clothes, photographs etc. were all gone. She called the police who told her they can't arrest him as he had every right to be in the property and unless she has photographic evidence of the insides of her wardrobe there is nothing they can do. The useless fuck of a solicitor said "This is a theft now, I can't deal with that"

So what would you do? Besides take a bat to the woman/baby beating, thieving cunt of a brother.

Alt question, have you ever been robbed or robbed someone?
( Peej, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:41, 34 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Gaz rachel swipe
she's on a beach or something and might be able to help.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:43, Reply)

Poor Rachel
She gets all the legal questions.
( Peej, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:44, Reply)

Well if she will be a lawyer.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:45, Reply)

I stole a pickamix once
I'm not sure if that counts as robbery
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:44, Reply)

You are worse than hitler
and will burn in hell.
( Peej, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:45, Reply)

'bum in hell'?

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:59, Reply)

When I was a student
we lived in Archway, Norf Lahndahn on a horrendous estate. We were robbed by pistol-toting raggas (luckily for me I wasn't there at the time) who knocked at the door and steamed in. We may or may not have been drug dealers at the time.

I was left penniless two weeks into the first term of my second year - not the best of starts.

EDIT I also got into a brawl in a hip hop club once (white-knighting some inordinately nice-looking women who were being pestered by a super-drunk chap), when it all calmed down I realised I had this fellow's neck chain in my hand so I had inadvertantly robbed someone, in effect. I still have it somewhere - it's fucking horrible, I should flog it to Cash4Gold or another of those Gippo companies.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:51, Reply)

Archway story....
I think Guy Richie stole this.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 17:02, Reply)

ROBBED AGAIN!!!!111

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 17:03, Reply)

The problem with domestic disputes like this is that you can't get legal aid for it
so if she took out a civil claim against the guy for taking her belongings, she would have to pay a solicitor to do the work. If the police won't help then civil litation is the only other way to go and as the police said, if she can't prove that he took her belongings it's not going to be a strong case.

Do check with Rachel though because I think she deals in civil disputes whereas I'm all about the scrotey criminal defence.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:52, Reply)

She's property law
I think. Easements and development and kicking squatters out and that kind of thing. It's got to be in her general neck of the woods, anyway.
( Kroney, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 17:17, Reply)

Hypotheticly, what I might do, if someone did that to my wife, mum and kid....
Wait a few years, then pull up in an anominus van, rip his top off, tie him up, put a black bin bag over his head, drive around for a while shouting at him, scare the shits out of him, drop him off in a carpark in the middle of no-where (with no CCTV in the area), cover with petrol, set fire, put it out with a fire estinguisher after a minute so they're still alive, call 999 on a only-used-to-make-this-call PAYG phone.

Well, that's what I would like to do, what I would actually do is not much outside of the law, wouldn't be able to stop my mates doing bad shit though, not for something like that.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:55, Reply)

Only of their hearts,
and other internal organs.
( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:56, Reply)

I guess it depends what you hope to achieve.
Obviously if it is the return of the goods and he is the type to have sold them then the law is not going to help you.
If you want some form of redress and the goods are valued at less than £5000then a claim through the small claims track of the County Court may be worth persuing. You can do it yourself and it doesn't cost a great deal. I've used the Money Claim Online service without too much trouble/cost (though this has been against businesses for money unpaid. I've no experience of claiming for possession of goods.) Again, it depends on the character of the "defendant" how bothered would he be by the threat of having a CCJ against him?
Just another thought. Have you spoken to your insurance? Your MiL could possibly claim for the loss, and it may be that (as with car insurance) the insurers would seek to claim the expense from the "guilty" party.
(Cave Duck, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 17:30, Reply)

seems to me that you insurance route is probably the most likely to yield results
of all the suggestions on here
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 17:56, Reply)

I have to say that realistically I fear the stuff is gone and there'll be no recompense.
My faith in the fairness of the English legal system has been massively knocked by my one experience of it. It's not overtly corrupt like it is in many countries (plenty of first world ones too *cough*OJSimpson*cough*), but it's pretty fucking shit nonetheless.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 17:42, Reply)

Whats the fucking point of the police
if you get burgled say "that guy has a key" and they can't even go and see if he has your stuff. What a load of shit.
( Peej, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 19:08, Reply)

And you know what
If I went to his place and burgled it back he'd probably find some way of gettin gme done. F star star CUNT!
( Peej, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 19:13, Reply)

calm down Malcolm
but sadly you're right. Insurance is the way forward I think
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 19:19, Reply)

No Insurance
it was her stuff in a dead persons house.
( Peej, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 20:03, Reply)

Just give his details to 4chan.
With a breif description of his actions. I think Nature will take it's course.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Mon 19 Jul 2010, 17:55, Reply)

fucking colonel grumble grumble shit doesn't even hold rank grumble
colonel of my arse more like grumble grumble
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 19:45, Reply)

When we moved out of a rented flat, into a rented house, both owned by the same company
I couldn't fit my whole load in the tranny. So we left my sisters bike in the kitchen. I had a set of keys and so did the plumber who was going to fix a few things before it was rented out again.

When I went back to get the bike it was gone, and the house was locked up nice and snug. So obviously the plumber nicked it. Called the cops who AMAZINGLY said there was nothing they could do. So, crime does pay, especially if the filth are lazy useless CUNTS.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 19:22, Reply)

If you have any insurance policies yourself (contents etc) then these often come with free telephone-based legal advice. Would be worth a call if you have access to something like this
Good luck.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 21:12, Reply)

who
Owns the legal title to the property? This is the person entitled to possession. If it is not the evil brother, he will then have to prove why he should be entitled to remain in occupation.

As far as the stuff is concerned, civil claim for the value of the goods, then report him to the police. But as the chompy one says, unless goods are high value or sentimental, if you can't find a lawyer to do a cfa and he has no money, it's a hiding to nothing.

Could go to local paper, if any of it is worth it, someone who bought it or a charity shop might return it?

What a horrible man.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 23:30, Reply)

The will hasn't been sorted but splits it 50/50 between them
However her own personal stuff was in the house as well.
( Peej, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 7:31, Reply)