You should get off fine by stating that the machine didn't work. Better yet if you can get anyone else who got fined to write the same. Medway council, from experience, will try to reject this letter. But threatening with taking them to the independent panel will often make them brown their trousers. I beat them aged 19, so it's possible. Check out the pepipoo forums or whatever it's called. They can provide lots of useful tips.
