Hoping for some helpful advice, please!
Daughter has new iPod nano and asks friend (mainly of son, but daughter also knows her fairly well) to put some music on it. Friend takes nano and has not returned it, despite many phone calls, texts and face-to-face requests. She now hangs up if son or daughter phone her and has deleted her Facebook account so no contact can be made through that. She has arranged to hand over the nano (does not dispute that she has it or that it isn't hers) but either doesn't bring it, doesn't turn up or makes some spurious excuse, the latest one being that her sister reckons it belongs to her.
Son and daughter have kept all texts exchanged with this girl. I feel we now need to show that we are serious about getting this back. Under the Theft Act definition, this seems to me to be a case of theft, taking the property of someone else and intending permanently to deprive the owner of it. Should we send a letter to her, setting this out and threatening legal action? Is there a simpler way to do it? What legal action could we take?
Her father is a police officer, which adds a certain tinge of irony to the situation! My son sees her most days as they are both working on the same holiday scheme while he is home from uni for Easter.
Thanks for reading and any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you.