Does anyone know Sean Andrews?

I am getting annoyed with Sean Andrews. I don’t have a clue who he is but some months ago, he got on a bus in Whitechapel and didn’t pay his fare. Since then, at increasingly frequent intervals, boring brown envelopes addressed to this criminal individual have been arriving at the Binnie Lubbock residence.

I wrote to the court, on the last but one occasion of such a letter arriving (a court summons to Mr Andrews). Clearly, he never had the intention of being fined for his misdemeanour, but a bureaucratic punishment is undoubtedly heading my way.

Having notified the court that Mr Andrews does not , and never has, resided at my house (at least not for the past 24 years, two months and five days), I have now been informed by the court that I must attend a future court hearing and present the evidence myself. What evidence??!! Despite a suggestion to the clerk of the court that, surely, a letter from me and proof of my ID should satisfy m’learned friends, I have been informed that nothing less than a personal appearance from me is an acceptable alternative.

What concerns me is the possibility of a ‘bad debt’ or county court judgment against this address and it seems most unfair that I should be charged with providing information and/or ID proof to argue a case not of my making. it also strikes me a complete waste of public money (if compelled to attend, I will certainly be asking for my time and costs in expenses).

In any event I have informed the court that I will not be available to attend court until after March 07, yet still they seem determined to pursue the matter, with the arrival of yet another brown envelope this morning. This time it is addressed to Mr Sean Andrews in red Ink and capital letters (a style choice I was always told was favoured by ‘nutters’). I shall be returning this envelope to SENDER forthwith!

I hope the saga doesn’t take as long as the illegal and erroneous switching of our gas supply which continues to have reverberations after more than three years…