Debbie Wilson wrote:


Question: might you be entitled to legal aid? I hate the thought of you
using up your precious savings challenging these idiots.

Probably not, although I know nothing about UK law. When my niece
ripped me off for all that money I had in CD's, the reason I didn't take
it to Civil Court was that I figured I'd be throwing good money after
bad. I couldn't have her arrested, because her name WAS on them as
joint owner, and I couldn't prove it was fraudulently, because her
mother, who had been managing them for me, was dead and could not
testify to my initial ownership. Because they were with a bank in
Wisconsin, I would have had to hire an attorney there, and travel back
there when the case came to court (maybe more than once, if it were
continued). The district attorney there thought I'd stand a good chance
of winning a civil case, but I really couldn't afford to take the chance
of wiping out the rest of my meager life-savings.

Unfortunately, people can't always be ARRESTED for breaking the law,
when "only" property is involved!