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Originally Posted by Russ D
Too right it should - if I went away for 2 weeks and found someone had got their way in to my house and decided to make it their own then too right I'd want them prosecuted. Of course, I'd like the power of discretion though.
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Russ, what you are describing is not squatting - it is illegal occupancy / breaking and entering - two entirely different kettles of fish which are usually easily remedied by means of a cursory call to your local constabulary.
Unless your house has been derelict, abandoned or unoccupied for a length of time, very considerably longer than two weeks I might add, then anyone who would endeavour to occupy it woud be breaking the law - but certainly not squatting.
This is part of the problem - squatting, and the rationale / legal entitlement to do so, is very misrepresented and misunderstood.