Dirty number plate problem

Here is Islington Council's photo of a contravening vehicle GO-ing where it shouldn't

To preserre the innocent motorist's identity Mr Mustard has redacted the number plate.

He made a short formal representation that there had been a number plate read error.

As parking management at Islington are always happy to hear from and respond to Mr Mustard he also sent them an email with some questions which he would like to have had answers to, as follows:

Unusually Mr Mustard did not hear back. As this is the only case of this type to land on his desk Mr Mustard just let it go. He will link to this case if another similar one comes along.

He did receive a proper and polite cancellation so Mr Peugeot was happy.

 

The nagging unhappiness in Mr Mustard's brain is that when a council sends out a postal PCN they need to have a belief that the person sent the PCN is the registered keeper. In this case clearly when told by DVLA of the name and address of an orange Peugeot they should have compared this information to their cctv images and realised they could not hold this belief. They are not the only council not checking. If the car had been leased the lease company might have just paid up as some (wrongly) do.

The end.