Cover-up! Driver who Tipp-Exed £9 ticket gets £800 bill

when a warden looked through the windscreen of her white Mercedes C220 as she visited her boyfriend’s house in Southsea, Portsmouth.

Prosecutor Ben Attrill told Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court that Richards’s car was impounded after the parking fine was not paid. It was eventually

Malikah Richards A PARALEGAL who used Tipp-Ex to doctor a parking ticket in an attempt to save £9 has been forced to pay almost £800 by a court. Malikah Richards, 25, paid just £1.80 for an hour’s parking, but then tried to dupe traffic wardens by whiting out the ‘1’ and writing ‘10’ to make it look like she had paid the day rate of £10.80. Her botched attempt was spotted

reclaimed by the finance company she had used to buy the car, because she had also missed payments for it. She had amassed more than £2,000 in parking fines since March last year in Portsmouth, receiving 27 tickets. Richards, of Portsmouth, admitted two counts of fraud for changing the ticket and then using it. She was fined £440 and ordered to pay £ 40 costs. Botched: The doctored ticket