Need some advice about magistrates court fines.

[Ramsay84]

Hello,

 

Im looking for a bit of advice regarding an oustanding court fine, ill fill you in on the story.

 

Back in may 2002 i passed my driving test age 17, my parents bought me a car and paid for my insurance, as all new young drivers i took to the streets most nights with friends and drove for hours, because i was a young lad in a new sporty car i often got pulled over by the police i say often what it really was was harrasment, in 1 week i received 21 producers from 4 police officers it seemed ike they made it there mission to pull me everytime they spotted me.

 

Anyway i took the producers to the local police station and produced, 4 months later i was dragged in front of the magistrates court for failing to produce my driving license and insurance certificate, it appears with the many tickets i received i had mis placed 1 and failed to produce, i was no longer driving my car at this point and did not have an insurance certificate as it was given back, i also had not sent my provisional back to the dvla to be converted into a full liscense but i did have my pass certificate, the courts allowed NO time for me to get a letter from insurance and proceeded to with the charges of No insurance and no liscense i received 6 points on my liscence and had to retake my test, i did not attend court due to health reasons but did submit a letter to the court, i wasnt made aware of the outcome for a further 9 weeks during the latter 4 weeks i started to drive again and was again pulled only this time arrested for being what effectively was a ban. I received a further 3 points and a £280 court fine, so that 9 points on my new fairly new liscense and court fee's totaling £700..

 

A few yrs passed and i continued to drive knowing i held no ledgitimite driving liscence i was very sour about what had happenedsince i had passed my test before cut a long story short i was stopped again and prosecuted for no liscence my own fault i now i was young and immature any way they placed my on Tag for 9 weeks and ordered me to pay a further £300 add that to the previous driving fines that had gone unpaid totals £1000 a yr later i thee was a no bail warrant for my arrest for failure to pay i was arrested and hauled before a judge quite rightly and they agreed i could make affordable monthly payments which i did for 2 mths then paid the balance off out right this was back in 2005.

 

3 weeks ago i received a court letter and a date that had already passed, i was rarther confused as to what this was all about since i have been legitimately driving since i passed my test again (when i grew up) in 2008 i contacted the courts and they inform me that there was an outstanding fine for no liscence and insurance dating back to 2002.

 

To my knowledge i had paid this fine off yrs ago but i have no proof any longer that it was paid they tell me i have to pay this fine or they will issue another no bail warrant and will be hauled before the judge again, now this at my age now does scare me i have left all the ignorance behind me and i am a law abiding citizen BUT i wount pay a fine i have already paid.

 

 

Can anyone give me any advice about what i should do now because i am losing sleep over this the courts said i could face going to prison if this isnt dealt with in 7days and there is also now a failure to pay warrant for my arrest

 

it is now 8yrs ago since the actual conviction even though i DID pay it how can they chase me for it 8yrs after? Can anyone give me any advice on what i shud do please.

 

I thank you in advance of your response and sorry for the long winded post just wanted to give you all the infomation..

[dx100uk]

i'll get this moved to the legal section

 

dx