Plates on Retention used in fraud
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3206029/Mi...
Fed up with remote enforcement and councils taking the piss with charges?
Daily Mail said:
HOW MILLIONAIRE BUSINESSMAN FRAUDULENTLY ESCAPED PARKING FINES
Julian King, 43, purchased a number of personalised number plates but did not tell the DVLA that he had put them on his fleet of luxury cars, which included a Porsche, BMW and Bentley.
Under DVLA rules, drivers are able to buy personalised number plates and hold them for ten years without fitting them to cars.
The DVLA is supposed to be notified when they are, which King failed to do. By doing this it meant that the DVLA was not allowed to release details of the number plates King had purchased to the parking authority, in this case Brighton and Hove City Council.
However, it is forced to do so when requested by the police.
Sussex Police became involved after a woman received 15 parking tickets for a car that was not hers and contacted the force. An investigation was launched and it turned out that a parking warden had incorrectly recorded the number plate for one of King's cars, hence why the woman was receiving letters for having a similar number plate.
The council then revealed to police that it had 45 offences that had remained unpaid which were linked to similar personalised number plates and, after contacting the DVLA, it was then that the police traced them back to King and uncovered his fraud.
Why go to all the expense just to avoid a trifling sum for parking?Julian King, 43, purchased a number of personalised number plates but did not tell the DVLA that he had put them on his fleet of luxury cars, which included a Porsche, BMW and Bentley.
Under DVLA rules, drivers are able to buy personalised number plates and hold them for ten years without fitting them to cars.
The DVLA is supposed to be notified when they are, which King failed to do. By doing this it meant that the DVLA was not allowed to release details of the number plates King had purchased to the parking authority, in this case Brighton and Hove City Council.
However, it is forced to do so when requested by the police.
Sussex Police became involved after a woman received 15 parking tickets for a car that was not hers and contacted the force. An investigation was launched and it turned out that a parking warden had incorrectly recorded the number plate for one of King's cars, hence why the woman was receiving letters for having a similar number plate.
The council then revealed to police that it had 45 offences that had remained unpaid which were linked to similar personalised number plates and, after contacting the DVLA, it was then that the police traced them back to King and uncovered his fraud.
Fed up with remote enforcement and councils taking the piss with charges?
Daily Mail said:
... a woman received 15 parking tickets for a car that was not hers and contacted the force. An investigation was launched and it turned out that a parking warden had incorrectly recorded the number plate for one of King's cars ...
Fifteen times the plate was misread (to generate the 15 parking tickets sent to the lady)??Or were the council's parking services (or perhaps just the one warden repeatedly
) not obtaining RK details for each ticket and just re-used the incorrect RK details from the first event? Someone should have a word with someone about that... 
I can't actually make much sense of the linked article; while something has obviously happened it is written in the style of 'drivel'
.aw51 121565 said:
I can't actually make much sense of the linked article; while something has obviously happened it is written in the style of 'drivel' .
Are you puzzled as to how he got away with it until the error recording the number? .It hinges around the councils not having access to reg numbers held on retention.
Presumably this applies to the likes of Parking Eye too.
But why go to such expense to avoid paying?
Mill Wheel said:
Are you puzzled as to how he got away with it until the error recording the number?
It hinges around the councils not having access to reg numbers held on retention.
Presumably this applies to the likes of Parking Eye too.
But why go to such expense to avoid paying?
Interesting... so if I park in a car park run by Parking Eye, then stick on the plates I still have for the number I have on retention, they won't be able to trace me?It hinges around the councils not having access to reg numbers held on retention.
Presumably this applies to the likes of Parking Eye too.
But why go to such expense to avoid paying?
No. Your name and address is on the retention certificate. I think the trick is the fact that the vehicles were new and so did not require an M.O.T. He just put the personalised plates on and forgot to register them! He bought them at auction and the DVLA for some reason don't have a system for recognising who bought them.The Bentley is now displaying a 13 plate. It's not just the parking fines he could have broken the speed limit. Heaven forbid!
aw51 121565 said:
Daily Mail said:
... a woman received 15 parking tickets for a car that was not hers and contacted the force. An investigation was launched and it turned out that a parking warden had incorrectly recorded the number plate for one of King's cars ...
Fifteen times the plate was misread (to generate the 15 parking tickets sent to the lady)??aw51 121565 said:
Or were the council's parking services (or perhaps just the one warden repeatedly ) not obtaining RK details for each ticket and just re-used the incorrect RK details from the first event? Someone should have a word with someone about that...
That's a very good question. What are the chances of the same (dyslexic?) CEO being involved each time? ) not obtaining RK details for each ticket and just re-used the incorrect RK details from the first event? Someone should have a word with someone about that... healeyfan said:
No. Your name and address is on the retention certificate. I think the trick is the fact that the vehicles were new and so did not require an M.O.T. He just put the personalised plates on and forgot to register them! He bought them at auction and the DVLA for some reason don't have a system for recognising who bought them.The Bentley is now displaying a 13 plate. It's not just the parking fines he could have broken the speed limit. Heaven forbid!
The police and DVLA CAN trace him... it is councils and private companies that don't appear to have access to the numbers, and it appears it is only parking penalties he has been avoiding.Gassing Station | Speed, Plod & the Law | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff