Ok, heres a really unusual tale, please take it as 100% gods honest truth and advise only if you definately know the answer.
i sold a vehicle last september to a lady, car was delivered to her which is nothing unusual and she didnt have my address, again nothing unusual there as we often recieve phone calls, take depositss, and deliver cars. Lady did grumble a few days after saying shes spent £275 on something that im afraid she already knew about. She had paid £2850 for the car.
That was september, last friday in april i had a high court encorement officer at the door and on my drive was a race car belonging to my son to be raced the next day and my own car. The HCEO said ive got 5 mintues to pay £5600 or the race car goes, if its not paid in 30 minutes its then £6600. I asked what it was about as i had heard nothign whatsoever and he showed me the writ of control, made out to an address in leamington spa of which i have no connection whatsoever.
So he proceeeded to go and clamp the vehicles while i stood there gobsmacked and unsure where to go with this with 5 minutes to spare, he advised me i had zero choice, pay or lose the race car then he will enter the house and remove goods, well how do i tell me son he isnt racing tomorrow, how to i tell my children they have no xboxes.
He said if i pay i can chase it up after, so i paid.
I then did some investigation and found out the address on the ccj and the high court writ were an address i know nothing about, becuase they didnt find me there they did some tracing and found my home address. I visited the address in leamington and students came to the door, they stated they get loads of letters and just bin them, i asked who the landlord was and visited him, he then gave me a letter to confirm he doesnt know me and ive never been a tenant.
I went to the court with an N244 to set the judegment aside, and was told tough, its too late, ive paid. How can it be too late i said, i get one bit of notice with a guy at the door filming me telling me i have no other option but to pay or remove goods, ive seen DCBL on the tv and thats what they do.
I plead, i need to see a judge as the lady has clearly used a ficticious address to pervert the course of justice so i would never recieve any paperwork, she then ups it to the high court, and they come out with a writ of control, so that can happen to absolutely everybody. I ive paid £4500 to her, plus £1000 to bailiffs and she STILL has the car.
I have also been to the police and they have taken a report of fraud. It goes to an external bureau first andf they then pass to police if necessary which they deemed it met criteria
A nightmare scenario which im sure will make alot of you tingle as it could happen to absolutely anyone.
Where do i go from here please? Ive had 5 different lots of different advice from court staff over this so of course im concerned that i really get the correct info please
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