LDK invoice

[Thunderstruck37]

Hi all,

The registered keeper of a vehicle has recently received an invoice from those friendly souls at LDK Security Group. They allege that the registered keeper of the vehicle parked in some parking spaces that they manage in Middlesbrough. This alleged contravention took place on 11th March. Their invoice is dated 17th March and the keeper received the invoice through the post on 27th March (which is of course more than 14 days after the alleged contravention). The registered keeper has footage from a door camera of the invoice being delivered by the postman on the 27th March. There also appears to be a problem with the address of LDKs "car park". As can be seen from the attached image, on their invoice the strip of wasteland that they allege is a "car park" (the red area on the image) is identified as "2-4 Granville Road" yet 2-4 Granville Road would actually be on the opposite side of the road (heads up to another thread I found on this forum for identifying this!).

It also may have been quite late into the evening when any driver of the vehicle (there are quite a few people who may or may not have been driving at the time) parked there, and fully dark. Any signage that they have at this site is not illuminated and almost invisible at that time of night.

Given that these thieves have botched up their signage, made a cock up of the address regarding their "car park" and have failed to contact the registered keeper of the vehicle within 14 days of this alleged contravention, what should the registered keeper do now regarding this invoice? The keeper has so far not contacted LDK in any way or identified who may have been driving.

Any advice on the next steps would be greatly appreciated!

[des8]

You make a number of points which are good for a defence.
For the sake of simplicity at this stage I would just write back along the following lines:

"I have just received your Notice to Keeper xxxxx for vehicle VRM xxxx

You have failed to comply with the requirements of Schedule 4 of The Protection Of Freedoms Act 2012 namely, but not limited to, failing to deliver the notice within the relevant period of 14 days as prescribed by section 9 (4) of the Act.
You have also failed to specify the period of parking to which this notice applies as prescribed by section 9 (2) (e) of the Act.
You cannot, therefore, transfer liability for the alleged charge from the driver at the time to me, the keeper.

There is no legal requirement to name the driver at the time and I will not be doing so.

Any further communication with me on this matter, apart from confirmation of no further action and my details being removed from your records, will be considered vexatious and harassment. This includes communication from any Debt Collection companies you care to instruct.

Yours etc"

Don't expect them to give up as rolling over doesn't produce an income for them!

[Thunderstruck37]

Thank you, DES8! I will advise the registered keeper accordingly. I will no doubt be back along with their response threat-o-gram!