RITCHIE’S LONDON MANSION RAIDED BY SQUATTERS
Director GUY RITCHIE’s $9 million (£6 million) London house has been overtaken by squatters.
The Sherlock Holmes moviemaker bought the property in the British capital’s posh Fitzrovia area last May (10) and hired a construction company to renovate the building.
However a group of squatters, part of the Really Free School, took advantage of the U.K.’s squatters’ rights laws and moved into the building at the weekend (12-13Feb11).
A neighbour tells Britain’s The Sun, "Police said the squatters will move in in force - and bring a grand piano." In Britain, a person can claim a right to stay in an empty property as long as they don’t break and enter.
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