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Demanding Money with menaces

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Morethanabitscared · 23/01/2011 21:32

When the business my DH was a Director of went out of business 18 months ago one of the men working for him was left out of pocket (wages). He has since been paid this money by one of the other Ex-Directors who employed him on a self-employed basis.

This man has since learned that my DH had recently been out to a job (Which he did not get paid for)and is demanding the money he is owed. My DH duely blocked him from Facebook, where the message was left.

This man started posting on my status last night threatening to take us both to "The cleaners". His messages grew increasingly more agressive and full of swear words. I took screenshots of these messages and then also blocked him.

He has said he has reported us to the benefits fraud people and that he would make sure we were sorry.

My DH had already contacted all the benefits people and had informed them of where he was going and for how long. They had no problem with it as he was not getting paid.

Apart from the worry of a Benefit Fraud investigation, this guy has really scared me. I don't want to worry about being harangued in the street when I'm out with the kids and it is making me nervous about going out. I called the Police but they just told me to block him from my Facebook profile. He is utterly adamant that he will get this money and refuses to accept that a)He has already been paid and b) If this was not the case as a Limited Company my husband is not personally responsible for financial matters regardless of any arrangement reached with other directors.

Does anyone have any advice? Sorry about the ramblyness but I'm really upset about the whole thing.

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Resolution · 24/01/2011 16:20

I'm not sure that what he's done is a crime. Just being mistaken in his belief that your husband owes him money does not make it a crime, no matter how distressing it might be to you. If you are satisfied that he is owed nothing, try and ignore him. He'll go away eventually.

If you're adamant you need to do something, see a solicitor and get them to write to him to say that any further communications on this topic are unwelcome, you've made your position clear, and unless he takes it to court you'll treat any further attempts at communication as harassment.

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