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Originally Posted by Russ D
We must have been reading two different posts then. I said that if I came home to find someone had decided to make my home their own then I'd want to have them prosecuted.
You then went on to suggest that squatting and breaking in and entering were 2 different things.
I demonstrated that that is not really the case.
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Apologies Russ. I thought since you quoted it that you were replying to my "I honestly don't know if squatting should be made illegal" statement when you responded with " Too right it should - if I went away for 2 weeks..." sorry if that wasn't the case.
Yes. Squatting and breaking and entering are two different things - hence the police in the case you referred to saying they "could do nothing as they had not forced entry. Locks were changed from the inside and the occupants could not legally be moved without a court order due to "squatters' rights"."
You see had it been a case of forced entry or breaking and entering the police would, quite simply, have arrested them. Since it would appear that removing them from the property would have involved a court order due to squatters rights then we have to assume that they claimed squatters rights. Ergo, they had not comitted a crime.
That's what I was referring to in my "pretty much sums up what I said" comment.