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2010 21 Aug

A man in Edinburgh has been fined several thousand pounds after being caught by police using a fake blue badge to park in London.

The blue badges, which entitled you to park in disabled parking bays, are issued by local councils to genuinely disabled people in order to make their lives a little bit easier, given their lack of mobility. Humayn Reza, the convicted man, used to run a care home in Edinburgh, which is where he is said to have got hold of real blue badges for residents, before using them to fake his own.

Mr. Reza was caught last year after parking a non disabled vehicle with the fake badge displayed in his window in a disabled parking space. Investigators had been looking into Mr.. Reza for a couple of years of misusing residents blue badges, but had never been able to catch him in the act.


Mr. Reza was taken to court last week, where he was convicted and fined £7515, with the judge telling him his crime was indicative of dishonest and fraudulent behaviour.

Unfortunately, this sort of crime appears to be on the increase in the UK, with more people being arrested for the offence over the last 6 months than the whole of last year combined. Disabled people, who’s only real benefits include the blue badges and the motability scheme, have had to endure up to 70% of parking spaces reserved for them being used other people in major UK cities.

Fines for the offence have been increasing aswell, with those prosecuted having to face fines upwards of several thousand pounds. This seems like it could be a real attempt by the government to have a genuine deterrent to committing this crime, although whether or not it’s effective remains to be seen.

Mr. Mr. Reza’s penalty is one of the largest fines in recent months, although a woman living in the Midlands was fine more than eight thousand pounds for parking her Renault Kangoo (strangely a model regularly used for WAV conversions) illegally whilst displaying a stolen blue badge.

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