Blue badge abusers prosecuted by Rotherham Council

TWO people who used disabled parking blue badges illegally to park for free have been branded “anti-social”.
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Rotherham Borough Council took the two — a man and a woman — to Sheffield Magistrates' Court after catching them out in the town. 

Paula Elomari (45), of Lyminster Avenue in Moorgate, was found guilty in her absence on Tuesday, February 27, after the court was told that she used her grandmother’s blue badge to park in a designated disabled parking bay on Wellgate last June.

Her grandmother was not with her at the time.

Elomari was fined £200, as well as being ordered to pay £200 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.

Ahmet Binici (48), of Piper Court in Sheffield, pleaded guilty by post when charged with using his ex-wife’s blue badge to park in a disabled parking bay on College Street, Rotherham, last July.

His ex-wife was on a flight heading abroad whilst the badge was in use.

He was fined £150 with £150 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.

Damien Wilson, Rotherham Council’s strategic director for regeneration and environment, said: “These are yet more examples of this extremely anti-social crime.

“Not only were the badges displayed fraudulently but the vehicles were parked in designated disabled parking bays, denying genuinely disabled people the opportunity to park there. 

“The council will not tolerate such activities and we will take legal action whenever it is in the public interest to do so.”

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