Ayaz Adam has pleaded guilty to blue badge fraud. A Manchester City Council officer spotted the blue badge displayed on the dashboard of Adam's silver Honda parked in a pay and display bay on Mount Street in Manchester city centre last April. (What took so long?) As well as a 60 hour community punishment order, he was ordered to pay £100 costs.
At first, he claimed the badge holder was at home in Blackburn, but he later admitted that the holder - his brother - had died.
Kaamini Popatkar was fined £525 with £450.07 costs when she was found guilty in her absence of blue badge misuse. A City Council officer spotted a blue badge displayed on the dashboard of Popatkar's Nissan, parked on Dickenson Street in the city centre last September. She told them the badge belonged to her daughter, who was at a birthday party in China Town.
However, staff at her daughter's school later confirmed the girl had been there all day and had not left. Relatives or carers of disabled people are only entitled to use blue badges when they pick up and drop off the badge holder.
Victoria Macmillan was fined £350 with £150 costs and a £15 victims of crime surcharge after pleading guilty to blue badge misuse. Her Vauxhall was spotted displaying a blue badge when it was parked in a pay and display bay on Jackson's Row last June. Macmillan, a recruitment consultant, told the City Council officer the badge belonged to her fiancé's grandmother. However, when the officer pointed out that her vehicle had been seen the previous day displaying the same badge, she admitted using it without the badge holder being present.
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