Thursday, 10 March 2011

The middle class serial squatters exploiting the law - Telegraph

The middle class serial squatters exploiting the law - Telegraph

They are middle class squatters whose taste for Britain's most expensive properties shows how the law is failing home owners.

A ragtag bunch of up to 40 activists and undergraduates has exploited legal loopholes to live for free in a string of historic buildings in London.

Dressed in scavenged clothes and ripped vintage tweed jackets, the squatters have struck four times in the past six weeks.

They occupied a building in Bloomsbury Square belonging to a well-known art dealer before invading a £6m house owned by Guy Ritchie, the film director. Then they took over an empty pub near Oxford Street before moving on to another near Leicester Square.

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