Couple with KN19 TER number plate in stitches after being fined £90 as traffic camera snaps woman in ‘KNITTER’ T-shirt

A COUPLE with a KN19 TER number plate were left in stitches after being fined because a woman in a ‘KNITTER’ T-shirt walked in a bus lane.

Builder David Knight, 54, received a fine for going in the off-limits lane in Bath – 120 miles away from his home in Dorking, Surrey.

When his wife Paula, 54, looked at the traffic camera snap of the alleged offence she couldn’t believe her eyes.

A woman strolling along the bus lane is seen wearing a T-shirt branded with the word KNITTER in black, bold font.

The computer mistook it to be David’s KN19 TER personalised number plate, which he chose as a reference to his nickname Knighter.

David told the : “We’ve been laughing about it a lot. There was no way I was going to pay for a woman walking in a bus lane with a funny T-shirt on!”

A Bath and Somerset Council call handler erupted into laughter when Paula called up.

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Paula said: “The fine had already gone up from £60 to £90 because we hadn’t paid within 30 days.

“Obviously no one had looked at the picture and it had been computer generated.”