That Fake Traffic Warden

I’ve said before that it’s always dangerous to comment on cases which you’ve only a newspaper report to go on read here

but the sentence for the crook, Christopher Povey, who issued fraudulent parking tickets to his neigbours does seem somewhat overly lenient.

The magistrates’ sentencing guidelines suggest that a fraud characterised by a degree of planning (Povey made fake parking tickets on his computer and set up bogus bank accounts to receive the cash) and which involved multiple transactions (he issued 150 fake tickets) should result in a sentence of at least 26 weeks custody.

It’s a long way from 6 months in jail to what he was actually given, a conditional discharge!