After pleading guilty at West London Magistrates' Court to using a counterfeit disabled blue badge, a resident in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea was ordered to pay a £515 fine and disqualified from driving for six months.
Mr Mehran Dahesh had received a caution from Council enforcement officers in 2009 for the same offence.
Hm, that worked well. Why would you let such a fraudster off with a caution?
However his choice to ignore this warning and continue breaking the law through the use of yet another blue badge has caused him to lose his licence for six months.
Good!
Undercover surveillance in January 2010 by Council officers found that Mr Dahesh was displaying a counterfeit badge to avoid having to pay for parking. When approached, Mr Dahesh immediately handed the badge over stating "it's not real", but then ignored the officer's questions and quickly drove off. The badge was put together using several other badges and pictures, and enabled Mr Dahesh to escape detection for months.
New disabled badges have been issued from the beginning of this year and have state of the art anti-fraud measures to prevent fraudsters from being able to copy them without detection. They have similar security features to driving licences and a new database will allow enforcement officers to detect lost or stolen and counterfeit disabled badges in seconds.
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