A magistrate sitting in Crewe in Cheshire accepted Mr Fisher’s guilty plea, and upon conviction he was ordered to pay the five-figure fine, £85 in costs, and the £50 unpaid tax bill.
Court papers reveal Mr Fisher’s car had been spotted parked on the road near to his home in Barnes, south-west London, in August when the annual tax bill had not been paid.
He said the tax was included on a past vehicle that he leased, and he had failed to realise that the tax on his new car only lasted for the first year, expiring at the end of June last year.
Mr Fisher wrote in to explain his mistake, while pleading guilty to a charge of keeping a vehicle without a valid vehicle licence.
Mr Fisher was among 2,948 defendants who were prosecuted last week for the offence of keeping a vehicle without a valid vehicle licence.
