‘Welcome to Victims First. Please leave your name and number and we will return your call. Beeeeeeeeeeeep!’
I had rung the number given to me by the police to pay my fixed penalty fine for not having an MOT.
This £100 I was trying to pay was coming out of an increasingly tight household budget, incidentally, so I decided that the fairest thing to do was to claw it back from the state.
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