Well.....what a morning!
Quick update - Police not interested in the fraud angle, just 'too hard to prove' and not in the public interest. But on the getting my money front.... eventually lost patience with the letter writing debt collectors, next step would be small claims but then he's already got 3 unsatisified CCJ's against him already, so what's another one......
Until I found a firm of debt collectors last week that you just don't argue with. Well, you could argue with, but it wouldn't last very long. I've just had a meeting with one the largest scariest men I've ever met (and this comes from someone used to dealing with body guards and security staff in the music business). Ex decorated SAS (genuinely, as we happened to discuss a mutual aquaintance) and in short he thinks this rogue needs to learn a lesson the hard way. My outstanding is currently £8.5k, his firms 'fees' are magically going to spiral that figure to £25k (which as a licensed collector they can do) and based on the fact that his credit searches show £47k in their personal current account THIS MORNING (not quite sure how that info can be legally obtained, wasn't going to ask) reckons he'll have collected it personally by the end of the week, with a healthy extra slice to come my way. He is even going to arrange for some buddies of his to pay him a visit in Camp Bastion.
Wade - do you want his number?
Oh, speaking of numbers - Zoe, Talk-Talk. 07761 xxxxxx. Believe the beer is on you??