Woman wrongly accused of Liverpool crash while home

Shelli Birkett from Herne Bay, Kent, was wrongly accused of causing a crash in Liverpool while she was 280 miles away at home. She had never visited Liverpool and had to prove her innocence to the police. Birkett used her Google location and social media posts to show she was in Herne Bay at the time of the incident. The police closed the case against her after she provided evidence of her whereabouts. Number plate cloning is on the rise, with nearly 10,000 penalty notices issued in 2023 to innocent drivers. This issue complicates law enforcement efforts to track down criminals using cloned plates.