WARNING Avoid Changegate Car Park, Haworth. Notorious for Clamping

peter_the_piper

5 days and nine hours to go, the countdown is on.

ManxRed

Hope he's managed to save some of that money instead of spunking it on dead babies or whatever it is he eats.

herbertanchovy

Mrs Evans, said on the documentary"The Yorkshire Clamper", that "the people of Haworth leave a lot to be desired". For this she is rightly hated. In the documentary, made 3 years ago, she didn't look a bit like she does now, people's hard earned, stolen by Ted, has been spent on plastic surgery and a hair transplant. Perhaps she thinks she won't be recognised. A very very sad old pair of rich but tragic people. Roll on Monday, that said he's earned his untaxed millions, perhaps he thinks it's currency in the hell waiting for him. Anyone read that article about his son James hitting him over the head with a shovel about 25 years ago?

torontoboy45

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Have we seen this youtube link yet on here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQQkfjLj_Bk

Not long now, Ted. What goes around comes around we hope.

well spotted, my little chickadee.

I've left a post advising that on here we're all well aware of Uncle Ted.

UnconsciouS

West Yorkshire Police have posted this message on their website:

"Worth Valley Sergeant, Chris Watson reports:
Vehicle immobilisation and the complaints surrounding the practice have been a significant drain on police resources for some time. The ill feeling this activity can cause was recognised by the government and in an attempt to address the problem, the activity became licensable under the Private Security Industry Act of 2001. Unfortunately, regardless of licensing, the issue remained an emotive one.
During my time as Sergeant for the Worth Valley, I have dealt with numerous complaints over wheel clamping. A good deal of these involve people who vow “never to return” to the village, after being clamped on a private car park in the area. It’s very disappointing that people can feel so strongly about one aspect of an otherwise pleasant visit to a lovely, historic village.
When dealing with these incidents, I’ve often found myself in a difficult position; On the one hand, I personally dislike the thought that a person can be “held over a barrel” for release payments. On the other, I cannot take police action against someone involved in an apparently lawful activity, no matter how distasteful the activity is deemed to be.
This has been my frustration, but not for much longer......
From the 1st October 2012, the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 makes the practice of immobilising a vehicle on private land an offence in all but very limited circumstances.
What this means is that the onus is being placed firmly on the operator to pursue any perceived breach of parking terms, through legal channels, rather than demand money at the time.
I wholeheartedly welcome the legislation, which can only be good for the village and for maintaining its reputation as a great place to visit.
Sergeant Chris Watson
Worth Valley Neighbourhood Policing Team"

http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news/haworth-good-news-update-wheel-clamping

However, I have a message for West Yorkshire Police. I believe that although you felt you were in an unenviable position and therefore couldn't act, that your lack of resourcefulness was astonishing.

Even by clicking on the net you will find dozens of stories from people all over the world. The similarities and allegations are in many cases identicle. You wee told that the ticket machine was rigged (a criminal offence); that a number of people were reporting that accomplices of the clampers were placing tickets in the hands of unsuspecting drivers (conspiracy to defraud) - yet you did nothing. The public had no idea what kind of regime they were facing as the signs had been positioned by Evans to not be seen easily by drivers coming into a busy car park. How could it ever be lawful to enforce clamping within the law, when the law required the parking spaces to be clearly marked? They were not.

West Yorkshire police may be the nicest bunch of guys and ladies I could ever wish to meet and I wish you no ill whatsoever - but on this point you are wrong! You failed the public for 10 years and you really should all be quite ashamed of yourselves. Yours was a monstrous neglect of duty. An ex-magistrate Ted Evans owes you dearly, for had he been operating his scam in Birmingham, he would now be behind bars. His takings (albeit dispersed) from this fraud may easily have topped £10 million over the last 10 years.

The public will continue to police the Evans family and their hoods beyond October 1st 2012, even if you, the police, fail to do so. Rest assured there will be more devious tricks in use by this villain. So wake up and salvage your reputation.

Coupon-mad

Totally agree! :T

We have seen clampers jailed for less, in Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Portsmouth which spring to mind.

And yet it seems that no covert operation even tried to expose his little tricks, such as (allegedly) getting accomplices to hand over tickets like a good deed, and sitting there like some harmless old man, selling books so people were distracted from the signs. There was even a TV show exposing his little racket wasn't there? And yet the Police did nothing.

The local Trading Standards must have very low standards if they couldn't be bothered to bring this case to Court over the years under CPUTR or any other relevant legislation.

bazster

UnconsciouS, don't tell us, tell the West Yorkshire Plod directly. I would suggest committing it to snail mail and sending to the Chief Constable.

NEH

If someone is stopped in the street and say something of theirs worth of value is taken and won't be given back to you unless you go directly to the nearest cash point wouldn't that constitute threatening behaviour?

That's what happens in this car park, except the item worth of value is a car and you have no other way of getting home. Ransom money for too long...Roll on Monday...

UnconsciouS

NEH wrote: »

If someone is stopped in the street and say something of theirs worth of value is taken and won't be given back to you unless you go directly to the nearest cash point wouldn't that constitute threatening behaviour?

That's what happens in this car park, except the item worth of value is a car and you have no other way of getting home. Ransom money for too long...Roll on Monday...

Yes. I agree. There were threats, intimidation, fraud, misrepresentation, theft, conspiracy to commit fraud, entrapment, behaviour likely to endanger life, false accounting, currency fraud, obstruction, false imprisonment etc. Only a Keystone Cops police force could have bodged their way through ten years to allow this all to happen - opposite their own police office! They could have at least put a camera in their top window and watched him - but something mysterious and even lodge-like prevented them - we wonder what it was! Was someone getting a rake off? Or was this something deeper in the behaviour of Yorkshire police generally which is very unsavoury and endemic that needs rooting out. I'm sure it was a top level order - that is the word in the ranks anyway! There was even fear in challenging Evans by ordinary officers. Evans thugs would laugh at their victims and call the police themselves to have their kill moved on!

Interestingly, the only time the Police seem to have acted is when one of their own vehicles got clamped - suddenly the police felt the humiliation of it and used their new understanding of the law in their own interests - but not the public's. It hurt their ego and clearly this went outside any 'mutual understanding'. Once their own van was released, they left them to get on with fleecing the rest of the human race.

The Police almost can't act now, because the public will say. "why did you wait ten years?".

ManxRed

Its not who you know, its the type of handshake you use.