to want to do this

[gorge2003]

ok long story to cut it short my dh lent his army issue boots to my brother...my sick twisted mother will now lot return them and dh needs to hand them in....

we dont talk to my mother anymore since 1st jan (very long story), she has done this before, we moved out of her house and she kept all our bedroom furniture despite us asking.

Have asked several time snow for boots, ignores us. Went to police this morning and they said to text her saying she has until the end of today to return them or they will take action. She has ignored again.

going back to police tomorrow. I want her charged with theft dh doesnt although if we do she might realise she cant screw us over anymore (money, belongings etc etc)

wwyd???

Exactly what you have done gorge2003, get the police involved and make sure that they follow it up.

Your mum sounds like a nasty piece of work quite frankly.

she is, there is so much more but it would take up about a million pages!

I agree with bluesheep. They're not tedchnically your boots really, are they? She's nicked them. If she's got previous I'd chuck everything at her now.

well my dad is telling me to do her for the furniture she kept too, which was given to dh from his nans house that died!

would it be theft though as my brother was lent them and now she wont return them?

I don't know about the legal position, but they were lent to your brother, not to her, so if she's keeping them then it looks like theft to me.

I would hazard a guess that the furniture issue is definitely theft. They're your dh's and they were his nan's. Your ma doesn't enter into it anywhere.

"would it be theft though as my brother was lent them and now she wont return them? "

yes it is. theft merely involves intentionally denying someone rights over a property which they are legally entitled to. Put it this way,it seems petty because it's a pair of boots, but if you'd lent your brother a car and then your mother refused to return it no one would bat an eye-lid at police involvment.
TBF I'd make your brother sort it out though.