I really could not believe that I was reading this.....

I've just read an article online concerning a Minister/Vicar whose home has been sold without his knowledge by someone who has stolen his identity - and he has been told by the Police that they can do nothing as it is 'a civil matter'. His neighbours rang and alerted him to the fact that the house lights were on and people were going in and out. When stolen cars have been sold on the Police can sieze them from the new owner as the car was not legally sold. Why is it any different for a house? Surely this is fraud on a grand scale, and the Police should find whoever stole the identity of this poor man and sold his house illegally. Land Registry have said that the new owner is now legally in posession - even though it was sold to him by someone who had no right to sell it, and was acting fraudulently. I've never read anything quite so alarming; how easily you could lose so much.