Five fined for abandoning cars

Court

Five people have been found guilty of abandoning their vehicles in Peterborough in just one week.

Now each of them has been ordered to pay £865.

The five individuals were successfully prosecuted by Peterborough City Council after failing to remove their vehicles when asked to do so by Prevention and Enforcement Service (PES) officers. The five fined at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court this week were: Jan Baringhurst, of Bringhurst, Orton Goldhay, Peterborough, Sonia Bowyer of Reform Street, Stamford, Jozen Pulcak of Stone Lane, Millfield, Istvan Varga of Cobden Street and Simon White of Hollow Way Lane, Amersham. Found guilty in their absence, all were fined £220, as well as being ordered to pay court costs of £125, compensation to the council for recovery and storage of £490 and victim surcharge of £30.