Is there anyone living in or near Monmouth ? Re Fairey Atatlanta 2 A55

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My father sold a Fairey Atatlanta 26 to an a**hole in Monmouth a few months ago. The boat was taken but the cheque bounced. My father was ill at the time which is why he didn't turn up and take the cash at the time of sale. It turned out that my father was seriously ill with terminal cancer and lying in hospital 2 months ago he asked me to try and recover the money for him. I spoke to this individual and told him my father was dying, I have subsequently written him a recorded delivery letter and had no reply.
My father died on Friday and it upsets me to think that someone could do this. I am determined not to let him get away with it.
I need to know where the boat is, if anyone is in or near enough to Monmouth and is willing to have a look at his home address please PM me. Maybe it's in a Yard. It's a Fairey Atatlanta 26 No A55 "SUE"
 
Inform the police for a start. It's straightforward fraud. List her on the 'stolen' boards here and on boatsandoutboards. At least the Atalanta is a very distinctive boat and easily recognised. I'm sure members of the owners association would keep an eye open for you too. If memory serves there are several based in Wales.

Having gone through the same kind of sad end with several family members you have my heartfelt sympathy and to have a b*****d like this cause your father so much more pain in his last days is absolutely unforgiveable.


Good luck. I hope you catch up with the sod.
 
hi my brother is home at present and im sure he would go and have a look for it for you as im sure any other person reading this will do to .so if you would like me to contact him send me an email thurloo@dodo.com.au. and give me address and any info you got to get this rotten pr..k regards dave
 
Experience again, the Police are rarely interested in anything of this nature they willl say it's a civil matter. They are quite happy to get you for doing 55MPH in a 50 area but otherwise useless.
 
You might want to get a writ served and taped to the mast,with chain to the mooring/dock-as soon as the boat is located-This will prevent it being moved at all until resolved in law. Unless you handed over the papers,receipted etc you are still in fact the legal owner?
I would start ringing around the local area boatyards if you don't locate the boat soonest by word of mouth-Chances are it may have been pulled ashore and tarpaulined,but with its distinctive keel and construction any boatyard would remember lifting it ,imho.
 
Sorry to hear about your Dad.
Don't let go of the cheque that has bounced. Get it back from the bank and don't take any excuses. You can get a solicitor to issue bancruptcy proceedings on the strength of the bounced cheque..means you can attack the buyers house and all other assets. Don't use a nice local solicitor, you need an evil bas**d who will get stuck in PDQ.
If you find where the boat is just go in and get it back, don't ask anyone, just do it.
Decent folk don't realise that we actually live in a jungle where actions speaks louder than words. A sorry state of affairs, but thats the UK today.
Good Luck. Paul
 
I will be near Monmouth this coming weekend, I will take a look if you like.

Apart from the already good advise, keep the boat insured!!! Just in case.
 
Thanks for all the advice I do have one of the UK's top solicitors in the form of Pannone and Partners but I'll probably do this myself, it's cut and dried. Direct action is what I'm thinking of which is why I'm trying to find the boat althogh if it's at his home address it could be tricky.
When you say get a writ, what avenue of law are we following ?
Thanks to all
 
SSD, forgive me but from the tone of your post it sounds like (a) you don't really know what you're doing in terms of taking necessary recovery action and (b) you're (understandably) way too wound up to be doing this yourself. There would seem to me to be as fair a chance of you getting arrested as there is of you making a successful and legally irreproachable recovery. I would advise you strongly to use a lawyer (it need not necessarily be Pannone - any firm with a commercial litigation capability should do) and then use bailiffs to enforce the court order. I wish you luck.
 
No sure myself whether this counts as fraud or theft, but if the latter, you try reporting it stolen to both the police and the insurance company. Armed with relevant info the insurance compnay may have better luck tracking it down and greater resources, especially of you had the option legal cover.
 
Re: writ

Civil courts - it worries me that you are asking all these questions on here, what are your Lawyers telling you?

The goods are a side issue here - I had a similar situation in the past the Judge said simply to the opposing party ".. a cheque is cash and can not be stopped, therefore you must pay" and awarded judgement to me. Never got the full amount of the ****, as someone else mentioned you need to go in heavy, very heavy & frighten them. A man with a Rottweiler & Baseball bat will be far more effective than a solicitor in a case like this, and I am not joking.
 
Re: writ

"A man with a Rottweiler & Baseball bat will be far more effective than a solicitor in a case like this, and I am not joking" Erm - maybe, but you'd be exposing yourself to criminal liability by arranging this to happen on "conspiracy" grounds. Far better to get a court order and then hire bailiffs to enforce - they tend to be "physical" types but stay within the law and get police assistance if necessary. On another point, SSD - are you an executor? If not, you won't have legal standing to collect debts owed to your father anyway. Please do this properly - contact a lawyer.
 
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