Pre court proceeding notification.
Do not ignore. We are preparing for full court proceedings.
We are writing in connection with the behaviour of the occupants of 161 Rutland Street and 70 Harold Street.
We are the new owners of the rear of 68 Harold street and other properties locally and UK wide.
Since we purchased these premises, we received a number of explicit and documented threats from some individuals occupying and connected to the above properties and most recently explicit and documented threats, which we received on the 29th of September 2024. This occurred after we cut the existing lock of the back gate that leads to the back of our property. Please note that the occupants of the above properties are continuously trespassing into our property. This is clear from the title deeds, where it is clear that in order to access the gate the only option is to pass though our property.
To summarise the occupants to the above properties are using intimidation tactics to:
1Prevent us access to the back of our property using intimidation and threats.
2 commit trespassing on a continuous basis.
For these two behaviour die too previous case law we will be start civil court proceeding to recoup damages from
1 the continued trespassing into our property
2 the prevention of the use of the back gate to access the back of our poverty.
3 demand of arbitrary payments using intimidation. (the legal term is EXTORTION)
The amount of the damage for similar cases have amounted to an excess of 10K per month.
As mentioned previously, our legal advisers have assured us that since previous case law allows it the court proceedings will be issued against the landowners, and the likelihood of a success in court is very high.
We would also like to point out that some of the residents on the above two properties have been documented fly tipping in the area especially on the back yard of 163 Rutland street and on the strip of lnd surrounding our building. We had mentioned to the these individuals that the best option was to take the refuse legally, either to a company called copes or taking it to the public tip. Although we have video evidence of this fly tipping activity, we have refrained in the past to publish this and bring it to the attention of the authorities to start prosecution. This is because we believed their behaviour could change without such intervention.
We also requested to health and environment inspector of the council to have a CCTV camera installed in Harold street to monitor these porperties and since this camera was installed this activity seemed to have stopped, without the need for persecution.
We would like to point out that verbal threatening behaviour was experienced by some of our contractors and myself in the past in connection with some alleged damage, which they never proved to be true. We would like to remind anyone who suffers any possible damage to point it out to us in writing , we will assess the case and make the necessary steps as we see fit. If any party is not satisfied with our finding they can file lawsuit against us or report us to the relevant authorities and we have no problem with such action. However, what we will stop tolerating are the intimidation tactics, attempted extortion and various criminal conduct which we have on record.
Please note that we have not taken any action as yet about all the above, as we are trying to find an amicable solution.
The solutions.
Option 1
The residents remove padlocks or allow us to remove the padlocks on the gate in question without resorting to any criminal conduct. (If theyare not satisfied they can report us to the police or any other authorities and/or start a lawsuit against us. To such actions we have no issue or objection)
Stop trespassing voluntarily. Any trespassing is also recorded by the CCTV camera installed by the council.
Option 2
In case the occupiers continue trespassing and threatening us or any of our contractors, we can agree that formal eviction process under section 21 or antisocial behaviour will be a suitable outcome, and we will not issue court proceeding against the landowners during the eviction process.
Option 3
the occupants keep preventing us the use of the back gate using threatening and intimidation tactics and/or continue trespassing and the landowners would like to continue to keep the current residents in the premises our actions will be:
1 issue court proceedings against the landowner of the t mentioned two properties above. To provide an example of the extent of the damage, the landowners would need to pay us as we will be very likely be awarded by the courts a yearly amount exceeding 120K plus legal fees and court fees.
2 release all evidence we hold including video footage and recordings and other evidence for publishing.
3 send all the above evidence to the relevant authorities to initiate public prosecution.
4. Copy of all correspondence will be also be sent to the relevant antisocial behaviour authorities.
5. Send the evidence of the attempted extortion.
We attach a copy of the previous title deeds and as you can see there is no right of way through our land. Please note that land dispute is outlined on the land registry and not enforced using criminal means (i.e. intimidation, threats and extortion).
We hope that the occupants will prefer to chose option 1 and refer to all relevant authorities if they have any grievances. This is our preferred outcome, and we hope no further action will be required to be taken.
Going forward, any further attempted intimidation, threats and other criminal conduct will be reported alongside all evidence of the case and additionally evidence of previous criminal conduct.
For Andreas Investments Ltd and Areton Ltd
The Director
Andreas Russo