Southeastern prosecution

[Deafdoggie]

Just to pick up on another point from the original post, I'm pretty sure that a misspelling of your name won't make the problem go away. As long as it's clear to everyone involved who is meant (and you don't seem to have any problem about accepting that the summons is meant for you rather than someone else with a last name that is one letter different from yours) then that will probably be good enough for the courts. So by all means correct the spelling - but don't expect that to mean that the summons will be withdrawn.

I have a friend who has, should we say, a colourful past. On their court appearance their name was spelt incorrectly, although not picked up on just two letters the wrong way round. When doing DBS checks (long story) later on they showed as clear as they were done with the correct spelling and there was no match! However, I don't think this should be relied on, but I also wouldn't worry too much about the error, it might (and only might) just work for you!

 

[Ohmy_t]

Was thinking this, but it’s a bit of a
risk, plus I would assume they would ask me for ID in court

 

[Deafdoggie]

Was thinking this, but it’s a bit of a
risk, plus I would assume they would ask me for ID in court

I guess it depends on if they notice a minor error. However, I most certainly would not want to rely on this method and were you to get a conviction you'd still need to tell people even if the DBS were to be clear. But I also wouldn't worry about a minor spelling error.

 

[Ohmy_t]

Update:
The matter has been sorted. I was offered an out of court settlement.

As previously advised I contacted the court asking for when the case was laid to them. Unfortunately it was laid a week and a half prior to the 6 month deadline hahahah.

I wrote 2 letters in total to southeastern apologising for the incident. They replied about 4 weeks later offering me a settlement.

I’m glad this over and thank you all for your help. I definitely will be buying tickets properly now.