Who said crime doesn’t pay? Squatters are a plague, both in the UK and here, and their crimes need to be punished in criminal courts, not civil courts.
“Squatters are a plague, both in the UK and here, and their crimes need to be punished in criminal courts, not civil courts!”
A 50 something male adult/son of friends invited his 30 something nephew to stay with him while recovering alcohol/drug addiction.
After a week, the nephew claimed squatters rights on his uncle’s home. Basically the cops/DA just turned their heads re helping the uncle.
The nephew had an operation removing one of his feet due to poor health/circulation.
The day before his nephew got out of the recovery unit post op, the uncle gave him the key to a new storage unit and told the nephew, that he was no longer a squatter in the uncle’s home.
Any forced entry into the uncle’s home would now be considered criminal forced entry.
The local DA’s office could then order the county sheriff to arrest the nephew and put him in jail.
The crime WAS punished in a criminal court.
"...and despite the judge finding Curtis committed criminal trespass, he was granted..."
Courts are a joke. Good luck.