A driver has been prosecuted for attempting to gain free parking by using her disabled son’s blue badge. 0, aged 35 was fined £400 with £251.37 costs and a £40 victim of crime surcharge.
Ahmed failed to attend a Magistrates’ hearing but was found guilty of two counts of using a disabled badge unlawfully. Ahmed was seen parking on a single yellow line on Albert Hill Street, Didsbury, last September.
When approached by an officer and interviewed under caution, Ahmed initially claimed her son, the badge holder, was in a nearby shop but later admitted this was not true and she had used the badge to park conveniently. In the city centre - only ten days later – officers again found Ahmed fraudulently using the badge.
