A DRIVER had the shock of his life when a warrant officer knocked on his door and told him he owed £360 in court fines for an offence he never committed.
Paul Allan was at work last Wednesday when his dad phoned him to say he was being hunted for failing to show up for a court case in August.
Magistrates then proved in his absence that he had ridden a motorbike down Wyld's Lane on Tuesday, April 17 with no licence, insurance or MOT.
They fined him £360, told him to pay prosecution costs and put nine penalty points on his driving licence.
But the stunned 27-year-old told Droitwich magistrates yesterday that police had the wrong man.
Clerk Peter Love told Mr Allan the address the court had for him was in Broadway Grove, St John's.
"Have you ever lived at that address," Mr Love asked him.
"About two years ago," he replied.
Mr Love asked him if he had any recollection of being stopped by the police in Wyld's Lane.
"Absolutely not," he said.
"The first I knew about it was Wednesday. I couldn't believe it."
Mr Allan, of Morse Avenue, Hartlebury, produced a letter from his boss stating he had been at work at the time the offence was alleged to have been committed.
"So what you're saying is that someone's given your details when they've been stopped," Mr Love asked him.
"That's exactly what I'm saying," the 27-year-old replied.
"Some idiot's riding round offending pretending to be me."
He signed a statutory declaration so the penalty points could be taken off his licence and the fine and costs dropped.
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