ok wonder if anyone can help this one....

Was on a (bendy) bus home had forgotten my wallet with my weekly 
(unregistered) oyster travel card in it and got done by the police. So 
annoying. But i gave him my address etc and told him I couldnt find my 
wallet and must have left it at home with the oyster card in it. he said 
that's fine and to just send in a photocopy to prove it once i find it. 
Turns out I hadnt forgotten my wallet it had been nabbed/lost. 
Having now been chucked off the bus with no other way to get home I bought a 
new travel card with a cheque as the one in my wallet ran out ran out the 
following day and i wasnt about to risk getting caught, again. 
 
So now I have no evidence of the old oyster card so will get fined. Or i 
could send in the one i bought on that day but does it show the time when i 
bought it (i.e. later than when i got caught)? will the inspector even have 
recorded the time when he caught me? he didnt issue me a ticket just gave me 
a card and told me to send evidence of my oyster card in to that address. 

Only asking as i dont really think its fair i have to pay a fine when i had 
not one, but 2 travel cards for that day! although it was my fault for not 
having my wallet on me. but dont really know if its worth sending in the new 
one i bought just afterwards incase they notice the time bought it and time 
i got fined are different and then im suddenly in deep water!

ok hope you can help an impoverished student!

Ellie

Ellie x