Squatters Rights

[Urban Sports]

Just saw this story on the news and it really boiled my piss, what is right about somebody being denied access to their own home due to squatters rights?

Another stupid situation for a Country going to Hell in a handcart!!

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/837556-woman-forced-to...

[BrabusMog]

Jesus Christ! How can that be possible? I would forcibly remove the squatter if it was my house.

[anonymous-user]

If you know the full story you'd know they are not squatters but tenants under an AST. Crap reporting.

Basically this Brighton woman rented out her house on an AST while she was living abroad. When she came back she tried to evict the tenant and her young daughter, then came to the gradual realization that she could not just turf them onto the streets at whim, or enter the property whenever she felt like it. Now she's gone to the papers, with lots of playing up on the fact that she is an honest-to-goodness British charity worker and the 'squatter' is a nasty forrun asylum seeker.

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 11th August 19:33

[Tsippy]

Her first mistake was informing the Police, her second was in not phoning a local security firm to get rid of the squatter.

[Big Al.]

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