notorious-squatter

Because I think it's absolutely disgusting that places of such opulence like the places I've squatted are left empty whilst there's people just round the corner freezing to death in the middle of winter. I'm proud of the fact that for a week I gave as many people as I could the chance to have a decent meal and stay somewhere warm and comfortable for the night. I did what I did because I don't believe in sitting on my arse doing nothing about something I feel very strongly about and wanted to help as many people as I could whilst getting people talking about some of the real issues.

We quite literally entered through an open window and the police came pretty quickly. By this stage they knew us pretty well from our previous squats and knew the score, it's a civil matter and the owner would have to take us to court. The squat ended up in the news quite quickly because someone reckoned they saw Lauri Love there, so I guess that put the owner off trying anything dodgy. We did have to contend with a bunch of football hooligans though.

Check the windows, there's usually one left unlocked that you can just lift up

In England trespass (with certain exceptions) is treated as a dispute between two parties and dealt with in the civil courts, and isn't generally considered a criminal matter.

Not myself, but I know of some fellow squatters who found a hidden gay bondage dungeon in a squat once.