A ROW has broken out after a mum was forced to watch on as her campervan was towed away.
Italian national Loredana Luisi, 55, saw all her possessions taken away in the van from outside a property in Hamble.
She had only been back in the UK for two weeks when it was taken. She had been holidaying in Denmark with her 10-year-old son Oscar.
She was supposed to drive back to Italy over the half term to return the campervan.
But she is having sleepless nights as she needs to return the £50,000 campervan to the lease company.
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Loredana said: “Nobody knows where the campervan is and what they’ve done with it, if they destroyed or sold it or if it’s parked somewhere, nobody knows nothing.
“All of this has made me feel tired, I haven’t been sleeping since this happened, they have stolen our travelling home. It’s a terrible nightmare.
“Please give me back my campervan. I feel like the campervan has been stolen.”
The towing company that removed the vehicle said it had been instructed by the Hamble property manager HMS Property Management Services as it had been there for two years and was untaxed.
It said there had been a 28-day notice period before this was done.
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Loredana said she has only had the campervan since the summer and it is fully taxed and insured by the leasing company in Italy.
She says Hampshire police told her its disappearance was a civil matter.
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In response, Lee Cooper from UK Tort Enforcement Services, which removed the vehicle, said: “The residents and HMS Property Management Services wanted the vehicle removed due to no tax, so they placed a 28-day tort notice on the vehicle, once spent we are then requested to remove, sell, or destroy the vehicle."
He added: "After the 28 days, the owner does not own the vehicle any longer and the housing association/management are liable for any legal action.”
In a statement, the leaser company Luisautocaravan said: “We still have no news of the vehicle and, we have already had a lawyer write and we are evaluating further actions to protect our right of ownership as well as the damage that this forced removal is causing both the user and us.
“Further aggravated if the vehicle does not return to our office in the agreed period of the end of October 2022.”
HMS Property Management has declined to issue any comment.
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