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If you’ve got this far – Thank you. More stuff discovered in 2001 through Barclays files and the Banking Ombudsman:

Barclays always maintained that Fisher Hargreaves Proctor (FHP) the LPA receivers acted independently from them. When I complained about the actions of FHP to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (R.I.C.S) they said I couldn’t complain because they (FHP) were employed by Barclays not me.

At the meeting “to settle” held in July 1997 no mention was made of the rents for Uttoxeter Road collected by FHP. It had been agreed that all parties would pay their own costs and according to the R.I.C.S FHP were employed by Barclays.

To clarify matters I asked Barclays for a copy of the transcript of that meeting, Barclays flatly refused but one was eventually obtained by the Banking Ombudsman in 2001. It confirmed that there was no mention of rents and that indeed each side was to pay their own costs.

My solicitor had asked for a copy of FHPs account of the receivership in 1997 without success but I did obtain one through the Banking Ombudsman in 2001.

The invoice was to Barclays – according to the invoice rents received were £7200, the only costs were an hourly rate, no disbursements or expenses such as solicitors and it was dated 1995… Odd? The costs exceeded the rents. Barclays used the rents as part of their costs and paid FHP the balance, apparently.

The documents included in the writ for possession of Uttoxeter Road prepared by FHP in July 1997 included the following:

1. A letter from Birmingham Midshires Building Society dated 21/2/1997 addressed to myself and Wanda at Uttoxeter Road, Derby. It stated that the Title Deeds to the property had been sent to our solicitors as requested. The letter had “your ref L30.ROS”. A letter dated the 1st May sent from Browne Jacobson to FHP, again using the same reference L30.ROS.
   
2. A letter from John Singh, a solicitor, sent to Browne Jacobson, writing on behalf of a prospective buyer, of Uttoxeter Road using the same reference L30.ROS.
   
3. A letter dated the 1st May sent from Browne Jacobson to FHP, again using the same reference L30.ROS.

We were not living at the property, we hadn’t made such a request and the deeds weren’t sent to our solicitor.

‘Someone’ using the reference L30.ROS had written to Birmingham Midshires. ‘Someone’ had intercepted and opened mail addressed to myself and my wife.

Apart from the apparent deception, I believe intercepting mail addressed to others is a criminal act.

24/3/97 Browne Jacobson replied, to a fax sent to them, by myself, about the deeds – not to me – but to my solicitor: