[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by ozsat

Bob Monkhouse was charged for making his collection and although the judge threw it out - he did not get many items from his collection back.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Surely they won't have been destroyed?

The Bob Monkhouse case was an oddity all round.

Not his VHS collection though, it was his film collection

https://www.filmstories.co.uk/featur...me-squad-case/

The case went on for eleven days in all, before the judge had had enough. He dismissed the jury, told Monkhouse there was no case to answer (there’d been no evidence at all that he’d been renting the films out, for instance), and all charges were dropped. The trial had been expected to go on for three months. It was over in under two weeks.

The case, sadly, had ramifications for cinema. Whilst some of his films were returned, not all of them came back. The Cameraman? Gone. Ghost Train? Gone. “My successful defence had failed to establish my right of ownership without each film title requiring its individual claim in civil court”, Monkhouse wrote, meaning some of the films could never be returned.

Many were destroyed as a consequence.