our nephew used to live with us until recently, we found out he had pawned one of my girlfriends bracelets so we reported him to the police and kicked him out. He left his clothes and other possessions at our house and said he would pick it up the following week. 7 weeks later his stuff was still here and we had heard nothing, we made several attempts to ring him and his mum but had no calls returned so we put his stuff on the tip. He rang today saying he was coming for his stuff and when we told him it was on the tip he said what we had done was illegal and he was going to the CAB. Is what we have done illegal?