In response to Mr Silcocks' assertion Wiltshire Libraries' housekeeping is atrocious I would like to refute this. I work for the library service and can testify that records and history on every single book in the county is known, even down to being able to tell someone if they have already read a particular book in the last six months!
Why did Mr Silcocks not respond to overdue notices and advice of prosecution BEFORE it went to court, if he was convinced he had returned the books?
Why did he not attend the court with proof that the books were on the shelf before so much, as he puts it, of the taxpayers money was "wasted". I can quite understand why the council preferred to drop the case not because they felt they were in the wrong but because having received the books back albeit belatedly (and under highly suspicious circumstances) there would be little point in pursuing it. As he says, it would be his word against theirs, and I know who I believe.
TRISH RUSHEN
Lottage Road
Aldbourne
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