9:09 am, October 31, 2016
A CAR dealer has been ordered to pay more than £3,200 by the courts for amassing a total of 12 parking tickets.
Dougie Goodwin, who runs a car sales and repair business in Park Street, Gosport, Hampshire, repeatedly used public car parks to store his vehicles between November 2014 and May 2016 and received a total of 12 parking fines which he did not pay.
Goodwin, 51, of Franklin Road, Gosport, was taken to court by Gosport Borough Council, and pleaded guilty to 12 breaches of the local authority’s off-street parking order.
Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court fined him £1,200 and ordered him to pay £780 compensation, £1,000 costs and a £240 victim surcharge, totalling £3,220.
After the case, Councillor Graham Burgess, chairman of the council’s community board, said: ‘No one likes getting a parking ticket. If people have legitimate concerns, they can appeal, but simply not paying it is only going to cost you more in the long run.
‘Mr Goodwin was a persistent offender, taking up parking spaces other people could have used. I’m pleased to see the court viewed this matter as seriously as we do.’
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