Rossendales Mrs Jones-Green at home in Accrington

The writer of this article is coming in for, very much like Pip Clothier with his Exposure programme ITV, unnecessary criticism because he has not tainted his piece. Well done. It is for the reader to decipher Mrs Green-Jones words. It is her omissions that make the report, not what she says and the good people of Accrington do not need overly reminding of the excessive disaster unscrupulous bailiffs can bring.

Nowhere is there a referral to 'innocent victims' and she concentrates on returned monies to the Councils through debt collection. Let us leave the first point, remarking on the historic inability of councils who accept the role of landlord without any of the the real responsibility. They allowed the dross tenant to usurp the rights of the ordinary decent tenant by turning perfectly good estates into dens of iniquity, slums and deprivation. It wasn't the bricks and mortar that did this but the sewage rats that the social experiment of the past 40years has evolved into. When the lazy and unkempt get a stronger voice than the hard working and industrious, then you are in trouble. You will always have problems if you do not vet your proposed MP before casting a vote. If you vote for a PARTY because your parents voted that way then you are setting evolution back, not adding to advancement.

As for victims I will say no more than Andy Miller. It could have easily been Rossendales and not Marstons who stood over his body in the Accrington shopping centre checking for a commission on a highly inflated speeding fine - a fine which was beyond the remit of any bailiff because of Mr Miller's vulnerable condition. (Fat Flan, Blackpool)

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Rossendales boss Julie Green-Jones defends bailiff industry

By Neil Docking »

A BAILIFF boss who earned a six figure salary last year has defended her profession and her company’s success.

Earlier this month Helmshore-based Rossendales featured in an ITV1 Exposure programme in which an under-cover reporter appeared to show examples of malpractice by a bailiff.

And a national newspaper said the firm’s managing director Julie Green-Jones received dividend payments, which combined with her annual income, have made her Britain’s first £1million bailiff.

But Mrs Green-Jones, who owns the company, which has 190 office staff and 200 bailiffs, said a substantial proportion of her earnings were not from bailiff activity and all her staff shared more than £208,000 in bonuses last year.

And she said the company’s reported fees, such as £130 waiting fees and £130 van attendance from ‘enforcement bailiffs’, were statutory, prescribed amounts charged after months of non-payment.

The 48-year-old, from Accrington, worked as a model before the break-up of a short-lived marriage, which left her as a single parent with no income.

She said: “More than four million cases are issued to bailiffs every year, with a value in excess of a £1billion. That’s enough to pay the salaries of 30,000 newly-qualified NHS nurses and 20,000 new police recruits. Read more at www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk

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