Friend has caused nearly £300 plus worth of destruction

Unhinged .
I think it’s unlikely she will admit to it or give you any money .
The friendship is over - I would consider myself lucky to have discovered that she was mad and to escape this lightly!

No. Neither of them had anything to drink. It’s on the OP’s updates.

The Police won’t care. What are you going to say? ‘Me and a mate were arguing over a bloke and then she bent my earrings’. It’s just ridiculous. Our neighbour has had a £100k Mercedes taken from his drive and the Ring doorbell footage is clear as mustard. The Police have just given them a crime reference number.

I would reply.

Wow, you are a seriously damaged, fucked up person. We both know I didn’t stumble. We both know you were upset and fragile because you thought I was after Pete. I wasn’t. You being the unhinged individual that you are damaged my precious things because you are a spiteful, rotten human…Off to warn Pete about the local bunny boiler.

Oh yeah, and it’s break, not brake. Thick as well as fucked up.

Tell her you're going to the Small Claims Court to recover the money and it will affect her credit score.

Forget the police.

I would warn off your male friend who she's interested in though.

If you owned a shop and someone shoplifted £300 worth of stuff, would you report it?

What if someone smashed your window with a brick?

@ScandiStyle They were interested in my ring that got nicked off the side of the bath when I was living in a house share. I got it back, eventually. But it was a really easy case. The only pawn shop in the town is a Cash Converters and the bloke that nicked it used to live next door to the bloke who worked there. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Not to the police it isn't.

I think it's more that £300 worth of jewellery has been damaged, rather than £300 of damage has been done.

Obviously, unless it's all non precious metal and not worth mending, broken jewellery still has some value.

It’s not about the damage. It’s about her behaviour.

OP your “utmost urgency”(very formal for a text between so called friends) is to block her and make sure she can’t track you.
Sounds like a stalker in the making who will slash your tyres if she thinks you’ve gone anywhere near this man.

To be fair, £300 if it's multiple pieces isn't really valuable jewellery. Could be 5 £60 pieces.

Serioulsy, you think they will spend time interrogating her over £300 worth of broken jewellery?

If the OP really wants to pursue it she should do it in a civil court where the burden of proof is far less onerous.

Were you both pittled?

😂

That's really spiteful.

OP, follow your gut instincts and go NC. If she's caused this damage, she will do similar again. Next time she could even hurt you.

No I can’t see them bringing a prosecution. But they might record it and they might speak to the person who did it.

I don't understand how you know it's £300 of damage. And can't you just bend it back again?

Why do you keep your jewellery on display in the hall? Especially if it's valuable.

She's obviously lying but I can't see the police bringing a prosecution about this.

Good grief, no! OP shouldn’t be within a mile of the fruitcake ever again.

You must've fallen pretty heavily and fast on all of the jewellry which was lined up in a row when you fell on it, after you knocked it all over on the floor having crashed into the table. None of which you remember of course but luckily she was there to pick it all up and place it neatly back on the table and remember what had happened.

A likely bloody story.

“Compelling circumstantial evidence” she has no evidence .. neither The Police, or you, can disprove that she didn’t fall into it and break it herself … and is looking to blame the friend in order yo recoup the money, or, claim on the Insurance.

Police “why did you say it was broken”
Friend “because I saw her fall into it and break it”

Thanks Sherlock

I don’t know OP’s individual policy but I doubt it would be covered because she invited her friend into her house.
And if it is, it probably, wouldn’t be worth claiming once you’ve taken the excess and the increase in premiums for the next few years, into account.
I’m so sorry OP, when you invite people into your home you expect to be able to trust them.

Surely if you’d stumbled and fallen, you’d have simply knocked whatever they had been placed on (presumably a little dish or something) and they’d have fallen onto the console or the floor? They wouldn’t have broken or become bent!
Also the fact that she immediately said she didn’t break them. She clearly did!

She has compelling circumstantial evidence – the friend was the only other person in the house when the damage occurred, the friend concocted an implausible excuse for the damage and the friend specifically referenced the items being broken when OP hadn't said anything about their condition – she just asked if the friend knew anything about it. Yes, it's a minor crime in the scheme of things but it's still criminal damage committed in OP's home. Why should she not pursue it?