Mail tampering

[alvin100]

A female friend slit from her husband a while back, recently she ordered concert tickets to see Robbie Williams but the tickets were delivered to her ex husbands address (her former address obviously)
The husband has opened the envelope addressed to her and out of spite has given the tickets away.
Does she have any redress, perhaps for illegally opening her mail or theft of the tickets, perhaps even the people with the tickets could be considered ti have received stolen goods. As usual the police are being a bit useless about what can be done as obviously this case has nothing to do with minor speeding offences!!!

Any thoughts please.

[IggyB]

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00026--f. htm#84

it would appear that a crime has indeed been committed - though i too doubt that the police would do anything about it, maybe a letter from a solicitor would at least get the ex husband to cough up for the tickets or even get those that received them to give them back

[Catso]

There is another, bigger thread about mail tampering here.

Your case is slightly different though as, yes, theft is involved. As an alternative to a solicitor's letter, you could initiate a claim in the small claims court. You can do this yourself, so it's cheap - about �50, I think, though if you win you get costs. But for any legal efforts to succeed you will have to prove the tickets were delivered. Without this, you haven't really got much of a case.

I have some sympathy with the police here; they are, justifiably, loathe to get involved in 'personals'.

[jedimistress]

If they are still married it may be a case of what's his is hers etc.

[alvin100]

Thanks everyone, I have passed on your comments.