Court Date - Stolen Goods.

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PistonHeed1667

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115 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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The initial message was deleted from this topic on 19 August 2014 at 14:52

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Advice: Take advice from your solicitor, not from a car forum.

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Most excellent advice from BV...on a car forum wink

shambolic

2,146 posts

166 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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BV advice👍

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Yes, BV's advice was to consult an appropriate, qualified, legal practitioner. Spot on.

Cat

3,014 posts

268 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Reset is a crime at common law in Scotland and is the handling stolen goods. It has nothing to do with whether or not you restored the factory defaults on the iPhone. The advice to speak with a solicitor is correct.

Cat

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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One question the solicitor and if not him/her the Court may be interested in is why didn't you contact the police about what had happened in your shop? I am not suggesting that you answer this question here, and it may well be better that you don't, but it's one to ponder on.

toerag

748 posts

131 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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PistonHeed1667 said:
...a customer bring in an iPhone and asked for it to have it's password removed by having the device reset. Before the reset happened I had someone come in and claim the item was stolen and that it was theirs.
How did they know it was with you? How would you have possibly known it was stolen? It sounds like a right stitch up.

pork911

7,086 posts

182 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Yes of course proper legal advice should be obtained.

I may be confused but is the reset the only charge and yet you didn't reset it?

Dan_1981

17,351 posts

198 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Haven't we had an identical thread recently with a laptop or something similar?

AndrewEH1

4,917 posts

152 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Breadvan72 said:
One question the solicitor and if not him/her the Court may be interested in is why didn't you contact the police about what had happened in your shop? I am not suggesting that you answer this question here, and it may well be better that you don't, but it's one to ponder on.
scratchchin

Dan_1981 said:
Haven't we had an identical thread recently with a laptop or something similar?
This story does sounds familiar, was in Glasgow too.

As for advice, do what your solictor tells you to. Especially as this is in Scotland and you'll end up getting people incorrectly quoting English law...

I'm still surprised that the Police are interested in this, there must be something more that we're not being told.

Edited by AndrewEH1 on Monday 18th August 16:25

herewego

8,814 posts

212 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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So if someone "finds" an iphone or presumably an ipad they can just go to a phoneshop and get it reset?

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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No doubt there is, but the OP might be wiser not to tell us much more until he has taken legal advice.

Aretnap

1,643 posts

150 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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pork911 said:
I may be confused but is the reset the only charge and yet you didn't reset it?
As per Cat, I suspect that he's confusing " reset" - the term Scots Law uses for dishonestly handling stolen goods, with "reset" - the act of restoring electrical equipment to its factory settings. He does not actually have to reset the phone in order to reset it, so to speak.

The Beaver King

6,095 posts

194 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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AndrewEH1 said:
Dan_1981 said:
Haven't we had an identical thread recently with a laptop or something similar?
This story does sounds familiar, was in Glasgow too.

As for advice, do what your solictor tells you to. Especially as this is in Scotland and you'll end up getting people incorrectly quoting English law...

I'm still surprised that the Police are interested in this, there must be something more that we're not being told.

Edited by AndrewEH1 on Monday 18th August 16:25
I was just thinking the same thing.

I am positive somebody posted an identical thread a few months back. How strange....


ETA - Found it : http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=140...

marshalla

15,902 posts

200 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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The Beaver King said:
I was just thinking the same thing.

I am positive somebody posted an identical thread a few months back. How strange....
this one ?
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=140...

Also a new account (at the time) with a username derived from the site name + a number...


Eclassy

1,201 posts

121 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Really odd story.

If I took a stolen car to a dealer to have the ignition changed, can the propreitor of the dealership be accused of handling stolen goods?

I'd imagine loads of businesses like pawnbrokers, computer repair shops e.t.c. will unknowingly handle stolen goods on a regular basis.

I am not one to normally say this but some details of the story may be missing.

OP - Hope you werent going to do an IMEI change.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Hey ho, school holidays it is, then.

zedx19

2,704 posts

139 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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This is definitely a very similar story to the laptop one, almost identical in every way bar handling an iphone instead of a laptop. What is going on here? Troll?

Eclassy

1,201 posts

121 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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herewego said:
So if someone "finds" an iphone or presumably an ipad they can just go to a phoneshop and get it reset?
You dont even have to go to a phone shop. Just do a hard reset (thats how it works on Android).