Council Pays Thousands in Failed Prosecution Over 40p Parking Ticket

Birmingham Post › December 14, 2005

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A council that dragged a mother-of-two through the courts over an unpaid 40p parking ticket was accused of 'wasting' thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money after it lost the case.

Laura Trotman, aged 25, from Stroud, Gloucestershire, fought an 11-month battle with her local council over a pounds 100 parking fine, which she had refused to pay.

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Council Pays Thousands in Failed Prosecution Over 40p Parking Ticket

She was given an absolute discharge by magistrates in November and told she w...

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