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Originally Posted by Marv
They didn't. They are allowed to do that if there is no answer.
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I'd say there needs to be more reason than just "there was no answer".
One imagines that if the police believe certain types of crime (e.g. potential violence) are being committed they can enter (it'd be pretty strange if they couldn't enter your house if they thought you were being murdered, for instance). However, these sort of excuses can always be manufactured after the event. Hell, even the housing management staff I work with have tales of forcing entry illegally (in the older, wilder days of local authority control) to properties (obviously not when people are in) and then saying they smelt gas (in one case, in a property which turned out not to have a gas supply) and thought emergency repairs were necessary ot something. People often act illegally, they simply rely on the people on the receiving end of such behaviour to not put up too much of a fuss.