If you find your liferaft in another light aircraft leave it their, and inflate the bastard!
If we had a robust and efficient CPS, Judges who were in touch with the society they serve and sentences that make your skin crawl you would not be having to post this thread.
It is not your fault the raft was taken, it was the ruling liberal elite in there Harringey mews busy eating rice and knitting yoghurt. Right on my arse.