Woman with Down's Syndrome and learning difficulties faced TV Licensing prosecution
by Tristan Kirk
Dec 29, 2023
3 minutes
A woman with Down’s Syndrome has been handed a criminal conviction for not paying the TV Licence, despite having no control over her own finances.
The 57-year-old from Charlton is one of dozens of Londoners taken to court by TV Licensing over unpaid bills in recent weeks, in prosecutions dealt with behind-closed-doors in a controversial fast-track court system.
Her old TV Licence expired in the summer, and when she was quizzed on the doorstep in August the woman told an agent she is disabled, she said she was currently watching BBC1, and was unaware that her
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