Pensioner with dementia convicted over unpaid TV Licence bill during stroke recovery in new fast-track court scandal

 A pensioner with dementia who had suffered a stroke has been convicted of not paying her TV Licence, in the latest harsh case to emerge from Britain’s fast-track courts.

The 72-year-old woman was bewildered when she was interviewed on the doorstep by a TV Licensing agent, shortly after she had been discharged from hospital.

 When she was prosecuted in the Single Justice Procedure, her son wrote in to tell the court about his mother’s memory problems, health struggles, and difficulties with communication and handling her finances.

But due to the design of the fast-track court process, TV Licensing – as prosecutor – did not see the letter, which outlined how the pensioner is receiving daily care and is essentially housebound....<<<Read More>>>...