A doctor was given a ticket for parking in a disabled bay outside a courtroom - while he was inside admitting misusing his dead mother's disabled badge.
Nigel Graham, 55, of Southbourne, Bournemouth, admitted misuse of a blue badge and fraud by false representation at Southampton Magistrates' Court. The osteopath was then filmed leaving court to find he had been given a parking ticket from Southampton City Council for parking in a disabled bay.
He admitted to magistrates one count of misusing a blue badge and five counts of fraud by false representation. His solicitor said his client admitted he should not have been using his mother's badge, who died in 2002, but claimed he was carrying disabled people in his car at the time.
The doctor was initially caught using the badge in King's Road car park in Southampton in July last year and appealed
Graham is to be sentenced on 26 June.
Badged!
Badged!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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If I was Emperor for a Day one of the things I would do is have all people who fraudulently use disabled placards sentenced to 2 months caring for people who are physically as opposed to morally disabled and then fine them 17% of their annual income for 3 years.
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Re: Badged!
Agreed.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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He's a doctor for crying out loud! Of course he has a handicap
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts