Student Loan now with Link - statute barred?

OwlTime

Briefly my story is I has a student loan taken out in 1997, which was latterly passed to Honour's Student Loans and now to Link Financial. The last deferment I had ended February 22nd 2016 - I am assuming this makes it statute barred?

A complicating factor is about a month ago I received a statement from Link (I'd never had any contact from them before), I noticed that £68 was being added to my account each month (EACH MONTH!) as interest. So I telephoned them. (I can see now, this outrageous interest charge may be a ploy to garner contact.)

In my previous dealing with Honour's I had a few problems, and I ended being harassed by them - this was about 2010; I share a name with a famous glamour model, and my telephone calls with Honour's were always punctuated by lewd suggestions, and innuendo, so much so I had to involve the police.

My memories of this came flooding back when I spoke to Link, and the people I spoke to were unhelpful and rude too - so regretfully I was a little more than forthright and used a few choice words. Could this have any effect on the statute barred situation? Everything I have read says 'written admission' of the debt, but now calls are all recorded, is this is good as admitting it in writing?

sourcrates

Acknowledgement has to be in writing to affect the statute barred status of a debt.

Verbal comms do not count.