Friend has caused nearly £300 plus worth of destruction

I'm here for the photo , I can't quite imagine how jewelry is broken...chains snapped?

'The police can also dust for her fingerprints'

What on some damaged jewellery?!

I think they save fingerprinting for serious crimes.

They literally won't check for prints

You may have evidence; her fingerprints could be all over the jewelry,

I'm glad you're doing something about this and not letting her get away with it. So many people on here have 0 confidence and would rather enable criminals for an easy life.

The police can also dust for her fingerprints. The fact she mentioned they were 'broken', is also very telling. Your message could have meant 'missing, moved, covered in something' etc but she instantly knew they were broken. Not only that, she then tried to gaslight you! She is psychotic! I would be telling said mutual male about what she did - She's a red-flag! Prevent what might be an abusive relationship, if she gets her hands on him....?

I would also definitely be telling people what she did, even if she does pay up. She cannot use money as a bribe or entrapment. What an awful girl.

I think your over thinking this. She was pissed, she did something bad, denied it & will probably just equally avoid you.

Yes she shouldn't have done it but unless your going to come straight out and accuse her + deal with the fall out from that then there's no point going ahead with anything she's an adult. She knows the police won't do anything & for everyone person who sides with you (of her friends) they'll be 1 who thinks "but why would she do this, I've never had her brake my shit"

Either demand the money to fix & face her not paying or move on with no contact because you know she did it

Any updates OP?
Does she work in a job she would need to declare if there was a criminal investigation against her?
Please warn your mutual friends she sounds unhinged

I think this is one of those situation where you could either spend your time and energy thinking 'what would Mrs Vito Corleone do?' or just chalk it down to a bad experience, sever the friendship with the newly revealed psychopath and move on. Be thankful that you didn't own a pet rabbit.

The Police are rubbish, so I doubt they'll do much apart from put it down as a domestic squabble between women.

The police won't do a thing, it's her word against her friend's.

Surely, surely this destroyer of jewellery in hallway consoles has form for such destructive behaviour op or is this all new?

By all means report so you feel you've done what you can, but she's already thought up her excuse and you'd have a hard time proving anything.
Sounds like you've lost a pretty worthless friend and you're better off without her - concentrate on other friends.

The sort of thing a six year old might do in temper. Not an adult. This woman is trouble!

I’m sorry, OP. The broken jewelry is a material loss but it’s also really unsettling to have someone you trusted in your home while you sleep do something malicious like that. You've called her on it but she’s going to keep denying it and there’s no way to prove she did the damage (yes, logically you can be positive she did but that’s not the same as proving it) so I’d say now it’s time to turn your energy to getting her out of your life and moving on.

Do give the male friend a heads up. I’m hoping the suggestions of pursuing or sleeping with him in this thread are all jokes, but obviously don’t do that. This woman has done enough damage without letting her provoke you into being an even shittier human to someone else who has nothing to do with this.

I wish people wouldn’t throw around defamation without understanding it.

Maybe she is very rich and can pursue one of the vanishingly rare cases that make it to High court each year. No doubt also the defendant could waste the friend’s money with an argument that it was her honest opinion at the time and the complainant’s significant losses/ tangible emotional distress were what exactly?

This is my take too - something about the OP seems a bit off. I’d be interested to hear the ‘friends’ side of the story.

*sorry i meant to quote a post further up.

Call her bluff! Tell her that when you checked back on the home cctv it was evident what really happened. She has 24 hours to pay for the damage or you hand the footage to the police.

This!

But in a nice, concerned way, “ Have you seen psycho bitch, recently? I am a bit worried about her, she deliberately damaged some property of mine when she stayed over the other night and now denies it! I know she is very fond of you, so do take care as I suspect she is having problems with anger issues and jealousy - some of which I suspect is centred on you. Let’s meet up for a drink soon”

I think, just be thankful she did not smother you with a pillow whilst you were sleeping. Block her.

She is not your friend. Check your handbags to ensure that she hasn't shat inside all of them.

Don't believe her if she plays the 'You have a jewellery hating ghost in your house,' card.

She is a nasty witch!

This is a very tricky situation.
You need to keep her at arms length, can't see her owning up to what she must have done.

Scarlett O’Hara did it, after all…

You are right she's painted herself into a corner. Her only option is to stick to her story and tough it out and that's what I'd expect to happen.

She will know that it's very unlikely you would complain to the police and even if you do they won't be interested.

If you want to freak her out, tell her you are in the process of getting finger prints lifted privately
https://www.private-detectives.co.uk/services/fingers1index.html

If she needs to continue her lie, all she has to say was you knocked into the console it went flying and she picked it up and put it back which is why it had finger prints on it. She didn't notice whether it was bent or not so can't say whether it happened before or after she touched it but it wasn't her.

Another way to freak her out is to tell her that you have to report it as a crime because unless she pays you will need to claim on insurance... that may interest the police in her mind.

What a horrible woman

Did they reply to your message op?

Police won’t get involved as friend says she did it. The Op is rightfully angry but also coming across as a bit unhinged too tbh