A five-year-old woman was despatched a £1,000 nice after a council in London claimed she had been caught fly-tipping.

Harrow Council’s enforcement unit, APCOA, issed the kid with a Fastened Penalty Discover (FPN) at her house on November 20.

It claimed the teen had been seen by a uniformed officer “committing the offence of fly-tipping“.

The native authority even warned the woman that Harrow’s environmental enforcement crew was about to inform the council’s authorized crew to start out courtroom proceedings towards her.

Her dad, who needs to stay nameless, strongly denied his little one had dedicated a grime crime and dismissed the nice as “absurd”.

He blamed overflowing communal bins at his block of flats for the packaging ending up on the road.

The disgruntled dad mentioned: “I’m significantly involved concerning the monetary affect of this nice and it’s inflicting my daughter undue stress for her age.

“All I would like is for this nice to be rescinded, or for there to not less than be a transparent course of for appeals towards fines resembling this, as there appears to be no due course of at the moment. I hope this injustice might be rectified.”

In line with the Native Democracy Reporting Service, the woman’s father tried interesting by way of Harrow’s web site, however struggled to resolve the difficulty.

He went to an recommendation session at Harrow Library in a bid to lodge an attraction after 10 failed makes an attempt to submit his particulars on-line. However he mentioned that he was informed to report it on-line or name the native authority direct.

The dad defined how he despatched an electronic mail to a specified tackle however it bounced again so referred to as the council.

After a 40-minute wait, he was put by means of to somebody who informed him they could not do something about it and hung up.

His daughter then obtained a closing reminder letter dated December 5, warning of courtroom proceedings and that not paying the penalty may result in a conviction and most nice of £2,500.

Harrow Council Chief, Paul Osborn, informed a gathering: “I’d wish to discover a little one who may afford to pay a £1,000 nice at 5 years previous. Clearly, that’s completely unacceptable and we are going to look into any of these accusations.”

A council spokesperson mentioned it isn’t council coverage to nice youngsters, the case has now been investigated and the nice cancelled by the city corridor’s enforcement agent.

An APCOA spokesperson mentioned: “The Fastened Penalty Discover resulted from investigation of waste that had been fly tipped; the age of the person was not recognized. Nevertheless, the FPN ought to have been cancelled on attraction.

“APCOA has already contacted the household involved to apologise and ensure that the FPN has been cancelled. We have now additionally taken steps to keep away from an identical scenario recurring as this case has not met our traditional excessive requirements of service.”