Well, she's back in the news:
A teacher has sold her Grade II-listed cottage for just £2 to stop it being seized by a court to settle a £76,000 legal bill racked up in a six-year feud with her neighbour.
She denied having sold the cottage to a firm run by relatives, adding: 'It's ridiculous that all this has happened over 12 poxy roof tiles. People commit suicide over things like this.'Yes, some do. Others, however, bleat to the papers:
Rekha told the M.E.N: “The cottage has been bought by two private companies.
“People came to help me. Benevolent people came to help because of the stories in the papers.
“It has been amazing. I was like wow, people can feel when something is wrong. I could write a book on the benevolence of people.Yes, people can indeed 'feel when something is wrong', Rekha. I'm feeling it now, for example.
But maybe the foreign press will be a bit more gullible?
“I feel the justice system needs to be fairer and accessible to everyone. I want to now put this entire matter behind me and move on. I want to travel to India and try and work on a book that would help educate others who get caught in a similar situation of being scared out of their own homes,” said the maths teacher, who works at Glossopdale Community College in Glossop.I think you might struggle to sell that book, somehow.
The case was adjourned to be heard in the Chancery Division of the High Court.Can it issue a bench warrant if she's still in India 'working on her book'..?
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A sale at below market value in order to evade legal costs can probably be declared invalid. The (gullible) purchasers would lose possession without compensation for their legal costs in acquiring worthless title.
"I was like wow"
"try and work on a book"
A teacher.
So if you have the misfortune to have a child at a State school, don't blame him entirely for being inarticulate - even if you've invested hours of your own time educating him yourself (as you are supposed to) - if this is the calibre of teacher he'll encounter.
Can it issue a bench warrant if she's still in India 'working on her book'..?
I am not perplexed that more British-born Indians don't return to the motherland. You'd need a very good reason for doing so.
Ms Patel has fallen well and truly down the 'Freeman on the Land' rabbit hole. See this thread for the story, I warn you, it will make your eyes bleed with the sheer lunacy of the FOTL crowd.
Hint, just because you think something is illegal doesn't mean it is.
http://www.quatloos.com/Q-Forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=11145
I suspect this will only end one way, but in FOTL land it will be seen as a victory - still a bit of FOTL fan are we, Julia??
Retired
How on earth can she be a maths teacher? Anyone with half a teaspoon of brains would have been able to reach the logical conclusion that it was cheapest to make peace and pay up before the bill spiralled.
Thank you for the link, plenty of extra background.
I did wonder if she is really a teacher. She might not be now but she was rated
as one on the 'rate my teacher' site. Below average, they said.
One of the points which I do not think has been made is that Rekha Patel's behaviour has not just damaged the property next door and the wealth of her family; it has destroyed the neighbour's ability to sell since it would be quite easily revealed that Patel is a nightmare to live nextdoor to. Nobody would pay full market price with a neighbour from hell already there, regardless of whether she is a tenant or a freeholder.
The court needs to get a grip of this for Patel's sake, too. At the moment she might have some equity left (questionable) but after the next round of litigation that is unlikely. What looks harsh - get that property transferred as was ordered and sold on - is the only way to preserve whatever is left after this debacle, or perhaps to get her in to bankruptcy to limit the debt.
The neighbour deserves some peace, too.
decrine,
I saw it suggested elsewhere that the "the (gullible) purchasers " were companies owned by family members. If that's true, even the densest Judge is going to think that she's sticking up two fingers and she's even more of a dimwit than she already seems.
"The (gullible) purchasers would lose possession without compensation for their legal costs in acquiring worthless title."
If they are indeed friends and family, let's hope so!
"...don't blame him entirely for being inarticulate - even if you've invested hours of your own time educating him yourself (as you are supposed to) - if this is the calibre of teacher he'll encounter."
Chilling, isn't it?
"... still a bit of FOTL fan are we, Julia??"
Was I ever..?
"The neighbour deserves some peace, too."
If the neighbour snaps and beats her to death with a spade, I'd love to sit on their jury...
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