brucemillar
MB Enthusiast
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- C55 AMG Wagon - W124 300te 4matic Wagon - BMW 4.8is X5 E53 - SWB Pajero 3.5 V6 24v
Almost 4 months from getting the letter (5 months from the offence, they sent the original letter to work who gave them my info) and nothing back yet.
Just to bring some belated Christmas cheer. My mate Dave (me) was summonsed "back" to court for a speeding offense committed in 2013. This was last year, so four years after I believed it had all just gone away. I posted on here and was directed to the pepipoo.com site where I received brilliant, practical, down to earth help. But I still had to attend court (in person) and represent myself (I could have employed a Solicitor if I chose).
This was after the case (unknown to me) was passed the to the 'Historic Debt Collection Team'. When they contacted me (initially by telephone) they were aggressive, you could shorten it down to "give us the money". I didn't "give them the money" and ended up in court.
I "won" my case but it was not easy for me to do so and involved a lot of research, time and frayed nerves. All for an incident where I had admitted my guilt (speeding in a temporary restriction) and provided proof that I was the driver and owner of the vehicle during the offense. I never heard anything further and assumed that it had 'gone away'. It had not gone away (they rarely do).
Happy New Year.