I have to agree with the judge here. The issue is not criminal theft here per the letter of the law. A lot of things that may seem like criminal theft to untrai

I have to agree with the judge here. The issue is not criminal theft here per the letter of the law. A lot of things that may seem like criminal theft to untrained eyes are not considered theft in the eyes of the law. For example, joyriding usually have to be added as a separate crime to criminal codes because they would not fall under the definition of theft in most jurisdictions. That being said, the neighbour definitely has a civil case here and it should be easy to win that one.