Blue badge fraudsters can’t hide

Rotherham Borough Council secured the successful prosecutions and two men have been brought to justice.

Kizito Bakuru (41) failed to appear at Rotherham Magistrates’ Court when charged with using his son's blue badge to park in a designated disabled bay on College Street when his son was in school.

Bakuru (41) of Mowbray Gardens, was fined £200 in his absence and ordered to pay £309 costs and a £20 victim surcharge.

Alan Burley of Woolley Wood Road, Sheffield, pleaded guilty by post when charged with using his mother-in-law's blue badge to park his car on Domine Lane.

Burley (63), was fined £37 and ordered to pay £115 costs and £20 victim surcharge.

Rotherham Borough Council's parking services manager, Martin Beard, said: “These are more successful prosecutions in cases of anti-social parking which deprives genuine people of much needed parking spaces.

“The authority will continue its campaign against such fraudulent activities.”