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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Tristan Kirk

Mother convicted over unpaid £8.75 car tax bill while grieving death of baby in latest fast-track justice outrage

The DVLA prosecutes thousands of motorists every week using the Single Justice Procedure (Steve Parsons/PA) - (PA Archive)

A mother has been convicted of not paying a £8.75 car bill as she was mourning the death of her baby, in the latest troubling case to emerge from Britain’s broken fast-track courts.

The 36-year-old was left grief-stricken when she suffered the devastating loss last September, just 13 days after her child had been born.

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