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01/8/2013 at 1:09pm
Location: Hampshire Outfit: Hi Gear Voyager 6
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This was covered on BBC South Today last night.
The true owners paid £30,000 for the van. The current "residents" said they paid £300 (yes, three hundred) for it off a bloke in a pub.
Plod has some difficulty identifying who actually stole the caravan, so the police cannot act against the thieves.
When you buy a car, it is bought caveat emptor. If you buy a stolen car, it is still the rightful property of the owner, and the owner, or insurance company (if they have settled) can snatch it back with no recompense to you - you should have been more diligent even of you did not steal it. This would probably be the same with a caravan, but here there is a difference.
The problem with this case is that the law that is preventing the police snatching back the caravan is under the Human Rights agenda. The "residents" after paying £300 for a £30k van were obviously not aware that something was wrong, so they bought it in good faith. If this was a car it would be snatched back at this point. However, as it is the current "residents" residence, I guess (pure guess) this is where the human rights mob get involved with their ridiculous laws, and the current owners need to take civil action to evict the current "residents" and reclaim their property.
I dread to think what condition it will be in after the current "residents" leave as they are likely to destroy it on exit (some of a similar demographic did this to a house they rented close to my parents).
EDIT: Another little business they operate is that they steal a caravan and then sell it cheaply (for cash) to some unsuspecting person outside of their demographic who puts it on his or her drive. The police roll up and quite rightly the van is repossessed and given back to its original owner.
So what is the difference here? The new owner was not living in it, so has no human rights, and the "businessman" is off somewhere else of no fixed abode with the cash.
I would provide a clearer definition of "resident" and "businessman" but I believe that this forum does not allow such practice...
Post last edited on 01/08/2013 13:19:45
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