Dart fare summons help needed!!!

Goolay

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone would be able to give any advice on a problem my girlfriend has with a summons for a dart fare. She was stopped last April for not having her ticket (she did actually have a weekly one but had forgotten it). Anyway we went off on holidays shortly afterwards and unfortunately it sort of went out of both our heads. She had given her address as it was at the time, in a rental she was sharing with a bunch of other people. After hlidays etc she was spending very little time in the house (more in mine) and moved out completely in June. She had never set that address up for any important mail, bank statements etc so never bothered with forwarding her mail. As the other people in the house also left and were replaced she had no contact with the new people. She has now recieved a call from one of the people living in the house as they opened an official mail for her thinking it was a tv licence- when in fact it was a summonce for last week. She is happy to pay the original fine, as it was certainly never the intention to evade it in the first place, however is pretty worried now as it seems to have reached a whole other level. As no ID etc was ever produced it is almost tempting to ignore and hope it goes away now- rather than the possibly serious consequences, however I know she would like to get this cleared up. Does anyone have any advice about what she should do, what the next step would be etc?

She is well aware this is her own fault for forgetting to pay- however it was a genuine mistake and we just want to get this resolved. Any advise would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for your time.

Nevyn

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