A driver undergoing chemotherapy was wrongly fined by both Barnet and Haringey councils in a case of apparent ‘car cloning’.

Car parking fines are the bane of many motorists ... are apparently coming from parking machines which have not registered drivers' number plates correctly, leading to their cars incorrectly ...

He said: “My car has all black badges, vents in the bonnet, a different front end, a spoiler on the rear boot lid, a black interior not cream, no line round the number plate, and four exhaust ...