WHOPLA accept UKPC's forged photos and REJECTS the motorist's appeal

That really is a shocker.

I would have thought that even UKPC would have cancelled the charge having been caught red handed with their pants down.

How on earth did it get to POPLA? Though guessing that it was one of those caught in the Beavis case if it was Whopla who "judged" it.

Now that would be fun, though I doubt that UKPC would be daft enough to try it.







Well they are daft, so maybe.

I suppose the obvious response to this is: Well. what did you expect?

However, this time there could just be something of a problem.

For the benefit of all here is the content of s.3 Forgery & Counterfeiting Act 1981:

It is an offence for a person to use an instrument which is, and which he knows or believes to be, false, with the intention of inducing somebody to accept it as genuine, and by reason of so accepting it to do or not to do some act to his own or any other person’s prejudice.

For the purposes of this section a time-stamped photograph is an "instrument" which is rendered a false instrument - grossly summarising - if is tells a lie about itself. If the time-stamp was altered as it certainly seems to have been then the photograph wasn't taken at the time the time-stamp suggests. Doesn't that amount to telling a lie about itself?

UKPC have already been hauled over the coals for this and know all too well that this photograph (and a number of other) is not quite what it seems but that hasn't stopped them producing it again to WHOPLA. Oh dear! One is only going to produce this photograph for one reason surely? UKPC aren't going to include it in their evidence pack (hint) and have the word "FRAUD" stamped in the middle of it are they. At any event it would seem that the WHOPLA drone has accepted it as entirely genuine and made a decision that by leaving the appellant open to pursuit of the unpaid charge would seem to be to their prejudice?

Is anyone prepared to offer odds that any phone calls are made by those in BPA Towers to Thames Valley's finest and dob UKPC in?

The best part of this is seeing a swaggering glorified debt collector-!!!-law firm entirely embarrassed by being sucked in by a doctored photo.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3229165/Is-PROOF-private-parking-firms-scamming-motorists-Drivers-say-timings-photos-doctored-legally-parked-cars-issued-fines.html

It's this one isn't it? Scroll down to the 3rd one.

Its easy to blame the boss of WH but that doesn't address the real issue. The beast that is WHOPLA was created by one organisation and it is at their door the blame should be properly be laid. The rickety ordure-laden cart should be heading towards Haywards Heath and have a delivery note with a certain Mr Troy's name on it.

If there was just one example that was indicative of the BPA's real concern for the public then this is it. That is aside for the cooked-up court figures the BPA supplied to the DVLA; the dumping of Old POPLA; the apparent way in which New POPLA completely misunderstood what it was they were taking on. And then there was WHOPLA. There is only one common denominator.

I respectfully suggest that WH's version of brand POPLA is as great an embarrassment as the IAS is to any vaguely intelligent person unless, that is, we have all been transported off into some Kafkaesque dystopian Parking World. For when used in the context of parking appeals bodies it is becoming excruciatingly obvious to me at least that the word "independent" actually means completely biased.

An independent appeals mechanism was very much part of the quid pro quo the government exacted as part of the keeper liability provision of POFA which in turn was the quid pro quo the BPA obtained as the trade off for not fighting the ban on wheel-clamping. The emphasis was on the word independent but its seems that once you have been inoculated with the private parking money-maker serum you lose the ability to understand the meaning of the word. The same goes for the word "management".

Its about time the public got to obtain its quid pro quo and that is to be freed from the obscene burden of private parking enforcement.