An NHS administrator went to extreme lengths to avoid four parking tickets by doctoring a genuine RAC breakdown invoice to cover dates she was caught.
Her deceit was exposed by suspicious council enforcement officers, who noticed her vehicle’s milage never changed despite being ticketed over a period of six weeks.
Sharon Senyange, 27, repeated the same trick three times after it worked initially, when Lambeth council cancelled her first £130 ticket after incorrectly accepting she had genuinely broken down.
The King’s College Hospital employee, of Chandler Way, Peckham pleaded guilty to eleven counts of fraud by false representation between February 27 and April 19, last year.
At Camberwell Green Magistrates Court she was ordered to complete 200 hours community service work and pay £746 costs to the council and an £85 victim surcharge.
Her white two-litre BMW was repeatedly ticketed in South Island Place and Patmos Road, Kennington, said prosecutor Mr. Jonathan Melnick.
“She appealed her first ticket, explaining that she had broken down and she had left a note in the windscreen.
“She attached an RAC invoice and as a result the Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) was cancelled.
“Three further PCN’s were issued and appealed using a similar RAC breakdown invoice with the job number and dates changed, but with the milage staying the same.”
The council refused to cancel the next three appeals and contacted the RAC. “She did have a genuine call-out at one point and has taken advantage of that.
“These are quite serious offences,” added Mr. Melnick. “There is a degree of sophistication.
“They were changed to tailor the PCN and someone looking at them may have been taken in and they were on the first occasion.
“It was motivated by personal gain to get out of these PCN’s of £130.”
Senyange told the court: “It was stupid of me and since then I have changed. I was being influenced by others.
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