DMB
13 Nov 2009, 09:29 AM
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6914704.ece
The head of a struggling building company kidnapped a customer’s wife and two-year-old daughter over a disputed £5,000 bill.
The woman and child were held for almost 24 hours after the woman’s husband was told that he would be killed and his family would meet an “untimely end” if he called the police.
...There had been civil court proceedings for £5,000 Scaife claimed he was owed for building work but which the customer had not paid because he was unhappy with the standard of work. The dispute was finally settled in March this year but the building firm boss was still not happy.
It's quite common to withhold part of the payment until the builder has put snags right, but there are always rows about it. This seems a rather extreme reaction, however. I'm amazed that they thought they could get away with it.
The head of a struggling building company kidnapped a customer’s wife and two-year-old daughter over a disputed £5,000 bill.
The woman and child were held for almost 24 hours after the woman’s husband was told that he would be killed and his family would meet an “untimely end” if he called the police.
...There had been civil court proceedings for £5,000 Scaife claimed he was owed for building work but which the customer had not paid because he was unhappy with the standard of work. The dispute was finally settled in March this year but the building firm boss was still not happy.
It's quite common to withhold part of the payment until the builder has put snags right, but there are always rows about it. This seems a rather extreme reaction, however. I'm amazed that they thought they could get away with it.