A pensioner who worked in his younger days as a semi professional Michael Crawford lookalike has been ‘harassed’ by debt collectors over a court fine which he paid three months ago.
Derek Bird incurred, he admits, ‘quite a lot’ of speeding fines for driving 25 mph in a 20 mph zone.
But after receiving just one warning letter in October last year, he received another saying he had been banned from driving for six months and had to pay £450 in fines.
The 76-year-old asked his wife to drive him to Willesden Magistrates’ Court, where he requested a hearing and arranged a date.
Mr Bird told MailOnline: ‘I went down there all suited and booted and from 8.30am to 12.30pm, I wasn’t seen.’
Ater waiting four hours, Mr Bird alerted an usher who informed him his name was not even on the list.
‘They squeezed me in before lunch but when the man read a summary of my case, he mentioned four adjourned court cases,’ Mr Bird said.
‘I had only received one letter so they wrote off the £450 fine, unbanned…
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