Property News · May 1, 2017

Debt-ridden courier's suicide after bailiff visit prompts call for reforms


Coroner raises concern over debt-collection agency’s practices after it clamped Jerome Rogers’s motorcycle before he diedA debt-ridden young man took his own life shortly after bailiffs clamped his motorcycle which was essential to his work as a courier, an inquest has heard, in a case that has prompted calls for reform of the debt-collection industry. Jerome Rogers, 20, was being pursued over two £65 parking fines that had escalated to a debt of £1,019 including non-payment penalties and fees for the use of bailiffs. After a coroner said on Friday that the presence of a bailiff outside Rogers’s home would have been intimidating, Rogers’s mother, Tracey, called for sweeping changes to the way the industry works. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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