A woman has been receiving two or three driving fines a week through her letterbox, all addressed to a stranger.

Carolyn Roffehill, from Walthamstow, said she started receiving the notices at her home in February 2019 and has since had multiple letters every week, including two last week.

She believes the woman the letters are addressed to is fraudulently using her address to get away with breaking the law.

Ms Roffehill has spoken to the police, Waltham Forest Council and DVLA about the issue, but says she has had no luck in resolving it.

She is also concerned the driver who is using her address fraudulently may not have taxed or insured their vehicle.

About six months ago, DVLA told Ms Roffehill it had removed her address from its records for the vehicle. But the letters continued to come in.

Ms Roffehill said: “I’m still receiving letters through post. It’s just getting ridiculous. At the beginning it was dribs and drabs, then it was two to three a week. That’s when I got very concerned about it.

“I spoke to police on 101 at the beginning of March, then I contacted Action Fraud. They said there were definitely some fraudulent activities going on concerning my address.”

She added: “It seems stupid for the DVLA to keep saying the same thing when surely their records should tell them what’s happening.”

Ms Roffehill has lived at the address on Bromley Road for 38 years and says there has been no one else living at the address during that time.

Some of the letters she received have photographs of the car involved and the registration is always the same.

It is believed automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras have been clocking the vehicle all over London.

Ms Roffehill is concerned the vehicle could be used “for anything”, including criminal activity.

Ms Roffehill also contacted her MP Stella Creasy, who made the council aware of the issue.

The last she heard from Waltham Forest Council, the issue was being escalated internally and deputy leader Cllr Loakes said he was dealing with the case personally.

The Metropolitan police and Waltham Forest Council said the case was a matter for the DVLA.

When asked if the case was being dealt with and whether DVLA would address any loopholes that have allowed the stranger to get away with parking and driving fines, a spokesperson said: “When a customer receives correspondence such as fines and penalties for a vehicle that they have no knowledge of, they should write to the DVLA.

“Following the necessary checks, the DVLA will then arrange to remove the address from the record concerned and will inform the customer when the change has been made. Guidance is provided on the GOV.UK website here.”