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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Miles Brignall

TfL fined me for driving in the ULEZ – has someone cloned my car plates?

Sign at Tower Hill in London for the ultra low emission zone.
Sign at Tower Hill in London for the ultra low emission zone. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Sometime in January someone started falsely using my car’s number plate. The first I knew about it was a parking charge at Stansted airport, which was quickly sorted out when I explained it wasn’t me or my car.

However, shortly afterwards I received two charges from Transport for London for supposedly driving in the ultra low emission zone. At the time of the violations, I was alone in my flat in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, and my car was in a nearby car park. Due to my schizoaffective disorder, I spend a lot of time alone in my flat. As a consequence, there are no witnesses who can vouch for me and no evidence I can provide to prove my whereabouts.

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