Hopping Mad!

Do you remember this from a previous post:

"Bad - the asshole husband of a friend of my mother's, to whom she lent money, seems to think he doesn't have to repay the loan. I'm going for his throat when I get back. Can't decide whether to threaten a lawsuit, report it as extortion to the constabulary or as undeclared income to the tax department, or perhaps just kneecap the bastard!"

Well, upon my instruction, the people handling my mother's estate wrote to him, requesting repayment of the loan and got this wonderful missive in reply:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am sorry for not having responded sooner but I work away and only pick up my mail every two to three weeks.

With regard to the enclosed letter, I did receive £10,000 from Mrs A in August last year.

I do, however, dispute that this amount is outstanding.

I told Miss A about this on several occasions, but she was not interested in anything I had to say regarding her mother.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

I opened that this morning and was hopping mad. How dare he imply that he had told me this on several occasions! From over a dozen emails I sent, he replied only twice, both times refusing to acknowledge that the entire amount was due to be repaid, referring to it as "balance due", which I disputed. He even once said "we need to work out a repayment schedule". Now he's disputing that the amount is outstanding?!

He keeps shooting himself in the foot - in one of the emails he told me that he visited my mum every week and brought her cigarettes, intimating that should be deducted from the amount borrowed (even if he had, I calculated a total of 750 pounds not 10,000 pounds) and now he's saying he only gets home every two to three weeks. Caught!

So I called their home number, got the wife. She answered with "hello" and after telling her who was calling and why, I got nothing. Not one single f'ing word. I know she was still on the line, I could hear the TV blasting in the background. When I finally got tired of her non-response to everything I said, and my money ticking away with nothing from her end, I told her that if I didn't hear from one of them within 24 hours, I was taking this to the police. I've been told that unless this asshole can produce written proof it was a gift - and I am positive that does not exist - then it's a viable police case for theft.

I can't believe that people my mother was so kind towards, have treated her like this. It makes me feel sick to my stomach.