Mum faces bailiffs threat over daughter’s parking fine
A SWANSEA mum is facing the threat of bailiffs over a car that doesn’t even belong to her and has since been written off.
The car belonged to the daughter of Elizabeth Boudreaux – 19-year-old Sian Boudreaux – but it was registered at the mum’s Dol-y-Coed address in Dunvant, Swansea.
Sian was given a parking ticket in April 2015 after parking at Gower College Swansea to hand in an assignment.
Working with the college, Millennium Parking Services issued the ticket because the former student was said to not be properly parked in a bay.
But Sian, who was 17 at the time, said there was no ticket on the windscreen.
“I’ve been told there was a ticket on the car but when I arrived it wasn’t there,” she said.
Sian added that she did not hear about the fine until she received a letter more than a year later, in December 2016, ordering her to pay £237.09. The car, a Fiat Punto, had been scrapped in the summer of 2016.
Mum Elizabeth said: “She was summoned to pay £200-odd and that was the first we heard of the fine, they had already sent it to court.”
But this was contested by Millennium Parking Services, which said its records showed that six letters were sent to the address by debt recovery company DRP between July and September 2015.
A claim letter was also sent by Gladstone Solicitors on November 2, 2016, before a judgement was made in court that month.
After refusing to pay the fine Sian has now been told to pay £327.09, with the threat of bailiffs at her mum’s address if the money is not received.
Elizabeth, 46, said: “This has just got out of hand.”