GregSarnowski
08-12-2013, 08:46 AM
Just when you think life in the U.K. couldn't be anymore absurd. Are we suppose to believe this family didn't know they were receiving stolen goods when they supposedly bought it from a guy in a bar for literally 1% of its true cost? And how poor can they be if they can afford to travel all over the country with it. It's one thing spending taxpayer money to give million dollar homes to illegal immigrants, which happens over there, but now apparently the poor are allowed to get away with stealing directly from people too. What a precedent! This makes me not even want to ever visit for fear that I'd get beat up and mugged and the police would take the mugger's side.
And the kicker is the victims are still paying every month for it!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2381292/Police-wont-hand-stolen-caravan-couple-protect-human-rights-travellers-living-it.html
Police won't hand stolen caravan back to couple to protect human rights of the travellers living in it
Kathleen McLelland and Michael Curry had their caravan stolen in 2011
They were delighted when it was found by police 18 months later
But officers are unable to move a traveller family now living there
A letter sent to the couple says the police have 'no lawful powers'
A couple whose £30,000 caravan was stolen have been told a traveller family now living in it cannot be removed because it would breach their human rights.
Kathleen McClelland and her partner Michael Curry spent their life savings on the top-of-the-range camper and were devastated when it vanished from the secure site where they kept it.
When police eventually found the 26ft-long Bailey Louisiana caravan 18 months later, its owners were told a traveller couple and their two young children were living in it only ten miles from their home in Surrey.
Their initial relief turned to outrage, however, when the police said they had ‘no lawful powers’ to get it back.
They were told their only option was to begin costly civil proceedings against the family, which they say they cannot afford.
Mrs McClelland and Mr Curry had spent £10,000 improving the £20,000 caravan, including putting in a widescreen TV. They bought the vehicle on hire purchase – and still have to make monthly payments of £250 for the next two years.
Hospital ward clerk Mrs McClelland, 68, said: ‘Why should we have to pay for someone else to live in our brand new caravan? That was for our pleasure in our older years.
‘The police said that removing the family would breach their human rights and that they would have to be rehoused before it could be seized. We spent all our retirement money on that caravan because we thought it would last us a lifetime. We’re absolutely devastated. It seems as though no one cares about our human rights.
[snip]
Mr Curry said: ‘Apparently they had a receipt for it and had paid a guy £300 in a pub for it.
They had no proof apart from a handwritten note on a scrap of paper, while we had everything proving it was ours. If they wanted a caravan, why not save up for it like we did?
And the kicker is the victims are still paying every month for it!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2381292/Police-wont-hand-stolen-caravan-couple-protect-human-rights-travellers-living-it.html
Police won't hand stolen caravan back to couple to protect human rights of the travellers living in it
Kathleen McLelland and Michael Curry had their caravan stolen in 2011
They were delighted when it was found by police 18 months later
But officers are unable to move a traveller family now living there
A letter sent to the couple says the police have 'no lawful powers'
A couple whose £30,000 caravan was stolen have been told a traveller family now living in it cannot be removed because it would breach their human rights.
Kathleen McClelland and her partner Michael Curry spent their life savings on the top-of-the-range camper and were devastated when it vanished from the secure site where they kept it.
When police eventually found the 26ft-long Bailey Louisiana caravan 18 months later, its owners were told a traveller couple and their two young children were living in it only ten miles from their home in Surrey.
Their initial relief turned to outrage, however, when the police said they had ‘no lawful powers’ to get it back.
They were told their only option was to begin costly civil proceedings against the family, which they say they cannot afford.
Mrs McClelland and Mr Curry had spent £10,000 improving the £20,000 caravan, including putting in a widescreen TV. They bought the vehicle on hire purchase – and still have to make monthly payments of £250 for the next two years.
Hospital ward clerk Mrs McClelland, 68, said: ‘Why should we have to pay for someone else to live in our brand new caravan? That was for our pleasure in our older years.
‘The police said that removing the family would breach their human rights and that they would have to be rehoused before it could be seized. We spent all our retirement money on that caravan because we thought it would last us a lifetime. We’re absolutely devastated. It seems as though no one cares about our human rights.
[snip]
Mr Curry said: ‘Apparently they had a receipt for it and had paid a guy £300 in a pub for it.
They had no proof apart from a handwritten note on a scrap of paper, while we had everything proving it was ours. If they wanted a caravan, why not save up for it like we did?