Court Date - Stolen Goods.

[PistonHeed1667]

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

[anonymous-user]

Advice: Take advice from your solicitor, not from a car forum.

[turbobloke]

Most excellent advice from BV...on a car forum

[shambolic]

BV advice👍

[turbobloke]

Yes, BV's advice was to consult an appropriate, qualified, legal practitioner. Spot on.

[Cat]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Haven't we had an identical thread recently with a laptop or something similar?

[AndrewEH1]

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.

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]

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

[anonymous-user]

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

[Aretnap]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Hey ho, school holidays it is, then.

[zedx19]

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]

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).