Am just looking for anyones advice input regarding a situation I currently find myself in.
I was at a large horse show in August with a horse of mine, when a woman approached me and accused my horse of having kicked her husband and injured him and having broken his camera the day before.
I had never seen this woman before and knew nothing about what she was talking about. She obviously mistook me for someone else, but was very abusive when talking to me and said she had witnesses etc. I tried to calmly explain to her that I wasn't anywhere near the area she was talking about on the day in question but she insisted that it had been me. She took down my competition number and walked off saying she would take this further. I was completely gobsmacked because as far as I was concerned this was a totally random woman approaching me about a matter I knew nothing about and blaming me for it!
Now I've just received a letter from the horse show's solicitors. Obviously this woman's husband wrote to them intending to make a claim. She obviously gave these solicitors my competition number to follow up on. In their letter of reply to this man (a copy was sent to me) it states 'we have ascertained that the offending horse was the property of' me and my address and they advised that this man should pursue a claim against me!!!
It's as if this horse show are blaming me for an incident of which I know nothing!! They never even enclosed details of the original letter they received from this man intending to make th claim. And surely they should have stated 'the alleged offending horse'?? Nothing has been proved yet and they never even contacted me to get details of my side!!
I'm so hopping mad and upset at this whole affair. I am now expecting to receive a solictors letter from this man any day intending to sue me for damages and I'm a completely innocent bystander in all of this madness! I cannot believe that someone can basically walk up to you in the street and accuse you of all sorts and cause this much trouble for you.
I'm now thinking that this whole situation may get out of hand and that I should go visit a solicitor of my own to protest my innocence. Is this the right move? Do I have a right to demand a letter of apology from the shows solicitors for wrongly implicating me in their letter of reply to this man? And what should I do regarding this mans false allegations? Do I counter sue for defamation and slander?
I'm so upset about all of this right now. The original incident had nothing to do with me whatsoever. It's a classic case of mistaken identity and now I face the prospect of having to pay solicitors fees to defend me for nothing I've done wrong.
I was at a large horse show in August with a horse of mine, when a woman approached me and accused my horse of having kicked her husband and injured him and having broken his camera the day before.
I had never seen this woman before and knew nothing about what she was talking about. She obviously mistook me for someone else, but was very abusive when talking to me and said she had witnesses etc. I tried to calmly explain to her that I wasn't anywhere near the area she was talking about on the day in question but she insisted that it had been me. She took down my competition number and walked off saying she would take this further. I was completely gobsmacked because as far as I was concerned this was a totally random woman approaching me about a matter I knew nothing about and blaming me for it!
Now I've just received a letter from the horse show's solicitors. Obviously this woman's husband wrote to them intending to make a claim. She obviously gave these solicitors my competition number to follow up on. In their letter of reply to this man (a copy was sent to me) it states 'we have ascertained that the offending horse was the property of' me and my address and they advised that this man should pursue a claim against me!!!
It's as if this horse show are blaming me for an incident of which I know nothing!! They never even enclosed details of the original letter they received from this man intending to make th claim. And surely they should have stated 'the alleged offending horse'?? Nothing has been proved yet and they never even contacted me to get details of my side!!
I'm so hopping mad and upset at this whole affair. I am now expecting to receive a solictors letter from this man any day intending to sue me for damages and I'm a completely innocent bystander in all of this madness! I cannot believe that someone can basically walk up to you in the street and accuse you of all sorts and cause this much trouble for you.
I'm now thinking that this whole situation may get out of hand and that I should go visit a solicitor of my own to protest my innocence. Is this the right move? Do I have a right to demand a letter of apology from the shows solicitors for wrongly implicating me in their letter of reply to this man? And what should I do regarding this mans false allegations? Do I counter sue for defamation and slander?
I'm so upset about all of this right now. The original incident had nothing to do with me whatsoever. It's a classic case of mistaken identity and now I face the prospect of having to pay solicitors fees to defend me for nothing I've done wrong.