Flat Squatter Gets Free Accomodation

A squatter has been jailed under the new law. (See previous blog ‘Squat and Gaol’ http://hsandco.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/squat-and-gaol.html). Alex Haigh, a 21 year old from Plymouth, came to London looking for work and squatted in a flat in Pimlico. Haigh pleaded guilty to squatting in a residential property and was jailed for 12 weeks by Westminster Magistrates' Court. HS&Co are experts in criminal law. In Your Defence.