‘Car cloning made me dread the morning post’

A 24-year-old car cloning victim has told how he ended up dreading the morning post after fines demanding thousands of pounds started to pour through his letterbox.

Cambridgeshire-based Eathan Cooper received his first fine last summer for a bus lane violation in Essex while on a trip to Madrid, in Spain.

Since then, Mr Cooper, who works in sales, has wrongly received dozens of other penalties for parking, speeding and driving through bus lanes.

Transport for London (TfL) said it had cancelled the penalties after confirming Mr Cooper had been a victim of car cloning. Read more