Partial Retribution!

Finally some good news. On Tuesday I contacted The Goodenough Club, where I suspected J might be staying, since he invited me there for drinks on Monday. He claimed he was staying "with friends" but I knew that was a lie. He likes to use the bars in the hotels he stays at so he can just run up a tab and not have to pay any cash. So I alerted the hotel on Tuesday - I sent them an email explaining that there might be a fraudster staying with them and attaching a small Word document I created, containing his profile and how he operates.

Yesterday, I got an email from the hotel manager saying the following:

Thank you for the attached. Mr S********* was indeed staying with us and due to your information he is returning to the Club today to pay us cash. We are holding his luggage until he returns and did not allow him access to his room last night, I do not know where he stayed. Yesterday after your initial telephone call I rang to verify the crime reference number you quoted with the police, they gave me a run down on the gentleman. Your name has never been mentioned.

Thank you for calling us yesterday and alerting us to him. To ask a question, did you see him in Freddies bar? If so, are you a member here, I don’t seem to have you on our system and wanted to let the College hods know how you helped us?

I was exuberant when I read that! Finally the bastard got caught. Sure, he wasn't arrested, but for the first time he ran into a wall and his thieving tactic failed him. The hotel did as I suggested - they phoned up the card issuer and it turned out the card was not his. He's supposed to come up with cash to pay for his stay. Right. Let's say he was staying there for 6 days. That's about £600. Plus the tab. Good luck. The guy's running out of money. I'm sure he's got some friends from whom he had never stolen - sort of like a safety net - but even friends like that would probably question him if he asked them to borrow £600 + in cash.

I am normally not a vengeful person but in this case you bet your ass I am. I want to see this guy pay for what he did to me and countless others.