"CJB" wrote in message
...
Rail firm hounded my family over £2 fine
Miranda Bryant
29.03.10

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...ound-2-fine.do

A commuter today told of his two-year legal dispute with South West
Trains over an unpaid £2 fine.

Mr Warwick, who works for an animation company, claimed he did not
hear from SWT until a year later — after he had moved to Bristol —
when his father called to say he had been threatened by bailiffs at
his home in Strawberry Hill. Debt collectors said that if he did not
pay them £600 they would pick the locks and take double the amount in
goods. Mr Warwick said: “I went to the Citizens Advice Bureau and they
said that it was illegal and that if it happened again to phone the
police. My dad felt completely threatened.”

I feel the paragraph above is almost totally untrue! Baliffs are not
allowed to pick locks. They can not take more than goods to the value of
the claim and since the guy who owed two pounds did not live at the address
they would have trouble identifying his goods. They could not take anyone
elses to pay the dues.

He went to Bristol magistrates' court to say that he had received no
court correspondence but about four months later his father told him
he had been threatened by bailiffs again. On 10 March he received a
summons to Richmond-upon-Thames magistrates but could not get time off
work to attend. He now faces a fine of £217.

Why did he go to the court in Bristol when the incident happended in London?

There is much more to this then we are being told about.

PDS



--- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: ---