Parking fine advise

[furby948528]

Just received a letter for DH from his car finance company. He apparently got a parking fine 2nd April this year (a day after his mother died so he might remember where he parked). However he clearly never got a ticket and has no knowledge (he's currently at work will tell him when he is home.) They sent the fine and threatened court action on the 13th July saying he had two weeks to respond. This was all sent to the finance company.
Has anyone experienced this? He would have paid whatever the initial amount was if he had know/or appealed. I can see from citizens advice you have the right to be informed of the fine within 14 days to be given the chance to pay at the reduced amount. If anything was sent it is clear this would have been to the finance company.
Any advise? He has had a crap time recently hoping I can give him some advice when he gets home.

Possibly caught on camera ? There’s no physical ticket with those just the charge through the post which may have gone to the finance company
is there any way of contacting the ticket company and finding out where that sent the ticket ?

I've recently had a speeding fine for my dh's company car that's taken months to actually reach us. It went to the finance company then it went to dh's company then eventually to him. Then me.

You don't get physical tickets for parking these days as most them are from cameras. There is a carpark near me with two exits and people are constantly getting fined from entering one and exiting the other.

Appeal to the authority issuing the fine and explain that the correspondence was never passed on to you. Ask if they would be willing, in light of this, to allow him to pay the initial fine at the lower level?

Contact the finance company to ask why the fixed penalty notice (I assume it was) was not passed on to you. If they admit that they received the correspondence but did not pass it on then ask them to contribute towards the fine if you aren't successful in getting it reduced.