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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Stephanie Wareham

Sadiq Khan’s car tax conviction withdrawn following ‘scam’

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan during a visit to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club training ground in north London, to announce a �1.5m funding boost through his Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) to deliver hundreds of diversionary activities for young people this summer, with a new year-long partnership between the VRU, the Premier League and 11 professional London football club charities. Picture date: Friday July 31, 2026. - (PA Wire)

A car tax conviction against Mayor of London Lord Sadiq Khan has been formally withdrawn by the DVLA after he fell victim to a “scam” which saw him fined for not taxing a 24-year-old Nissan Micra.

The Labour politician, 55, was prosecuted last month by the DVLA for keeping an unlicensed vehicle and was handed a £220 fine by a court in Herefordshire, after the case was dealt with in private in a fast-track court process.

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