Thought you’d got away with that long-ago fine? Think again. Unpaid parking tickets are being chased up by officials who have already clawed back £9million

‘Tens of thousands of people have been hit with fines up to a decade old for long-forgotten offences such as unpaid parking tickets – after Ministers launched a hunt to track them down.
The Ministry of Justice is taking advantage of new technology, using databases held by other government departments and online tracing tools, even locating people who have moved homes.
Around £9 million has already been clawed back for the taxpayer.
But the campaign has left many people bewildered about receiving the fines after such a long time. Some have complained they are innocent of the offence but are unable to prove it now that so many years have passed.’
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