Theft, Robbery or Burglary?

Would you know the difference?
Well Mr Bill is beginning to find out that they are different but all covered by the 1968 Theft Act and some subsequent amendment Acts.
Theft does not cover people stealing mushrooms growing wild in a farmer’s field which are taken and cooked to be eaten by the taker (or thief as most people would think) – if he sold them it would be a different matter – quite what you could charge this person with has not yet been covered.
There were numerous scenarios which Mr Bill went through and had to decide whether they would be covered by the Theft Act.
It seems that quite a lot of the stuff in this Act is to do with intent and it also seems that intent is rather difficult to prove.
One thing he did spot was that if your High Street Bank mistakenly pays money into your account and you do not take reasonable steps to bring it to their attention you can be done under this Act. As with all legal things it does not specify what reasonable is.

Mr Bill is a bit itred tonight, having found it rather heavy going today and is not especially looking forward to handling stolen goods, criminal damage or criminal attempts tomorrow. If he is too tired to talk about his day there might not be a post.