Money stolen by bailiff

[lucybattams]

Hello, my mum got a parking ticket back in August 2010. She totally forgot to pay this and without no warning this was given to the bailiff to collect. Cutting a long story short, the bill was a standard parking ticket which once got handed to Equita became £354!!! My parents couldn't afford to pay the whole amount. One day a bailiff called Andy Mascot came to our house threatening to take our belongings if we didn't give him the money. This is not the first threat we got from him. He then spoke to my dad on the phone who works as a taxi driver in London. they arranged to meet at Redbridge and my dad gave him £100 of the money which is all he had. Andy refused to give a reciept as he was meant to collect the full amount. Weeks later we got a call from a different bailiff and he claimed no money has been payed. Andy Mascot never handed the money in and nothing was ever put on the system. I refuse to let my parents pay the full amount. I have looked his name up and this is not the first time he has done it. He went to court in 2009 and admitted banking someone elses money. I have no idea how to take this further. Who do i contact? Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Celestine]

Re: Money stolen by bailiff

Hi Lucy

Welcome to Legal Beagles.

I am very sorry to read about this latest Equita behaviour. As you already know, they have 'form' for this sort of behaviour, as well as being generally vile, abusive and dishonest.

Unless your dad can find some way of proving the cash withdrawal given to this Andy scumbag, it is going to be very hard to recover that money.

It is probably a tidy little scam that happens quite frequently. Not receiving the full amount is NO excuse for not issuing a receipt.

After reading your first post on this thread:
Equita Bailiff - Legal Beagles Consumer Forum

I was fearful that your parents had parted with several hundred pounds.

Bailiffs are people who can't get decent employment doing proper work, think about it? Who would aspire to be a bailiff?? Thus the industry attracts dishonest, scummy thugs.

[CleverClogs]

Re: Money stolen by bailiff

Do you mean Andrew Mascot of Oakley Green, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 8EX or someone else of the same name? :tinysmile_hmm_t2:
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Bailiffs are people who can't get decent employment doing proper work, think about it? Who would aspire to be a bailiff?

Some oaf rejected by both the Cosa Nostra and the modern equivalent of the Schutzstaffel? :tinysmile_hmm_t2: