Non-smoker fined £433 for dropping cigarette butt in Manchester | Manchester

Manchester Municipal Assembly was sentenced to a magistrate’s court of magistrates who organized a family funeral, although he was hundreds of miles away, after accusing him of leaving a cigarette butt in the city center.

Steve Jones, a 53 -year -old teacher, lives 200 miles away in Teddington in the Great London, just went to Manchester three times and doesn’t smoke.

He told the Council that this was a wrong cases of identity and did not leave any garbage, but continued regardless of the absence of prosecution and received a collection order with a fine and costs for £ 433.

In July, a pack of evidence was sent by the Manchester Municipal Assembly, iz You were accused of garbage offense ve and a letter, including a letter that said that a single justice procedure was notified by the local authority in March.

Last year last year, December 14 in the afternoon of the H&M store on the out of the H&M store allegedly dropped a copy of a fixed penalty notification of a fixed penalty notification, which ended in the Magistrate’s Court, the maximum fines will rise to £ 2,500.

The letter gave Jones 21 days to answer, after which he would hear the case in the absence of the court and that he could be sentenced and sentenced to a fine.

Orum I know I’m not there, because my father -in -law died on December 13th and I was in Maidstone, Jones Jones said.

The address in the fixed penalty notification was Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, and the birthday on the ticket was matching Jones, the year of birth was 10 years later.

“There is a wrong date of birth, then I have a definition, which says that I have a hats that I find quite strange,” he said. “I don’t know what hat hair means, and I really don’t have that much hair, because my hair is everywhere, because I don’t stay too much.”

Jones contacted the Council to explain the mistakes, and the Council officers said, “He went back and forth for the ages,“ he said, “And then they had to find the man’s camera evidence, and this lasted for a few days, and finally realized that it wasn’t me.”

Orum I don’t want this in my record, Jones Jones added, “and especially as my teacher.

Jones said he initially fought to provide a written apology, but thought that the issue was closed after receiving an e -mail that apologized for the “administrative error”.

However, Jones received another letter, saying that he was convicted of on 28 August and was sentenced to a fine. “I just find it amazing that I am prisoner in my absence,” he said. “I mean, it sounds really serious.”

“I did not convince anything [before]“So, Blimey, that’s really heavy. “

Jones is also concerned that the same thing may happen to someone else who may have the capacity to challenge a fine. Im I would have seen how it could be quite stressful if it had been sent to someone with this old or other needs, and it could really cause too much pain and agitation, ”he said.

Jones said in his first relationship with the Council that he felt “more distress ında, but now he said that he felt“ really angry öz after the prosecution continued.

“This is really serious to me,” he said, “And I’m not sure they’ll rip it up.”

A Manchester Municipal Assembly spokesman said: “The Council is doing everything in its power to be put aside at the next opportunity to take any action for the conviction to regain the penalty.

“Of course, we apologize for any trouble or discomfort given to Mr. Jones.”