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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Jonathon Hill & Kelly-Ann Mills

Simple DVLA mix-up sees woman dragged to court and fined for something she never did

A woman says her life has been put on hold after she was fined £1,000 and summoned to court for motoring offences she did not commit.

Sarmite Reinholde had given her Audi A5 back to a finance company in October 2018 having used it for a year.

Authorities still believed the 33-year-old was the driver of the vehicle years later, and were sending fines to her old address in Barry which she'd been oblivious to.

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