Getting rid of exP things

[Illcallbacklater]

Can you get in trouble for getting rid of (giving away, not selling) something an ex partner left at yours for the better part of a year and never came to collect, ignoring repeated requests to do so over a span of 8 months?
As in, it's been disposed of and now exP is asking for it back despite having refused to collect it previously

Do you have written requests asking for removal and stating that if not collected in X days they will be disposed of?

Sorry. He should have been given notice that you would be disposing of them if he didn't arrange collection within (insert time period)

Look at the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act.

As if he’s going to pursue this legally!

Yeah I doubt he will take it further. I feel bad but he's come over for other things in the past and made excuses to not take it with him, it isn't worth much, so I passed it on as I have clumsy DC and a dog, and it's a piece of furniture with glass in it, that was just in my living room. I'm not a storage unit. Even now he's asking for it back he wouldnt specify a time. We didn't end on bad terms at all, wasn't a long relationship and didn't live together. It ended up in my house as his new flatshare had a furnished living room, so this hasn't been done out of malice. I hadn't heard from him in months when I got rid of it!
I have texts where I've asked him to get it, yes

Just say, “I wasn’t able to store it so got rid of it when you failed to pick it up.”

That isn’t at all unreasonable.

Best way to deal with things like this is to request they remove their stuff by a certain date or else you’ll charge storage fees, and that you’ll dispose of items after None collection or none payment of storage fees