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Is personal confrontation the best place to start? If you're unlucky they'll deny everything then stash the bits before the police get involved and then you've made no progress at all. It might be better to surprise them with a policeman knocking on the door. Also if the person who bought the bits is likely to be friendlier with you than the potential thief you could get them to act as a witness of sorts i.e. you say "this guy stole my parts" and the Instagram person can corroborate by saying "yes officer I bought the bits off the same guy" as hopefully the police will recover the money so he's not out of pocket
frankenbike
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I know speaking about legal matters on here can be tricky so I'll try to keep it vague...
I strongly suspect (99.99999%) that a person known to me has taken frames, parts, wheels etc belonging to me and sold them without my permission. (No sign of break in, no one else has access)
Oddly someone I follow Instagram who ended up buying one of the bikes from an address just a few roads down, which I believe is where mate of the suspect lives. The bike was built up with a medley of parts belonging to me that are missing and the address also had another distinctive frame of mine sat in the garden of the address.
I'm going to confront them personally about it first but if it can't be resolved then I guess I'll have to get plod involved. The stuff was kept in a locked shed on a property that both they, I and a couple others have access to but this is still classed as theft right?
I wasn't emotionally attached to any of it but I imagine it was probably around £6-700 worth of stuff thats gone and would like to see at least some of it back though I'm guessing there's probably slim chance of that...
Just want to know what leg I have to stand on regarding the law?