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UKPC "altered" Photo Evidence - now on BBC

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  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 43,644 Forumite
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    edited 10 September 2015 at 7:18PM
    The cancer is spreading. Lincoln, Stoke, Newcastle-under-Lyme, now Canterbury and Liverpool!

    I'm sure tomorrow will bring more. #unravelling!
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • trisontana
    trisontana Posts: 9,472 Forumite
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    Now on ITV local news:-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP3NoaktNMg&feature=youtu.be

    (about 8 minutes into programme)

    Stupid for the TV woman to say they had been parked "legally" , Of course no criminal law would have been broken even if the motorist had overstayed.
    What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    People should not get too hung up over the semantics, the word fine is perfectly fine in a newspaper favoured by the great unwashed.


    Tell the sheeple that a company is issuing unsolicited invoices and they will shrug their shoulders and move on, tell them that they are being fined for overstaying at Tesco and they will be righteously indignant.
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • Marktheshark
    Marktheshark Posts: 5,841 Forumite
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    The BPA are investigating ?
    Have they not seen enough already to immediately suspend them ?
    What an absolute and utter shower they are.

    What exactly is to investigate, they are committing blatant and deliberate fraud whilst waving the BPA banner.

    Talk about a toothless tiger.
    I do Contracts, all day every day.
  • trisontana
    trisontana Posts: 9,472 Forumite
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    Of course the BPA (Ltd) will say they are not a regulator, just a trade association.
    What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?
  • Marktheshark
    Marktheshark Posts: 5,841 Forumite
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    Just realised, if they have paid a commission, that adds incentive and solicitation to commit fraud to the list of charges.
    I do Contracts, all day every day.
  • ManxRed
    ManxRed Posts: 3,530 Forumite
    The BPA aren't investigating, they're in discussion with UKPC on how they can come up with a 'way out'. They're in full damage limitation mode right now.
    Je Suis Cecil.
  • Ivor_Pecheque
    Ivor_Pecheque Posts: 745 Forumite
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    From the news report....

    "limited number" and "few of their employees."
    Illegitimi non carborundum:)
  • ManxRed
    ManxRed Posts: 3,530 Forumite
    More than one though.

    So, were they talking to each other, or did it come from above?

    I know what they'll say, but I wonder which was true?
    Je Suis Cecil.
  • Guys_Dad
    Guys_Dad Posts: 11,025 Forumite
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    ManxRed wrote: »
    The BPA aren't investigating, they're in discussion with UKPC on how they can come up with a 'way out'. They're in full damage limitation mode right now.

    Not sure that I agree 100% with that. There has been so much exposure on this case that if the BPA are not seen to be doing anything, then the flak that they would undoubtedly take is likely to make them want to be seen to have "done something" and anything less than a suspension would not tick the right boxes. Of course - expulsion would be even better.

    Can they be seen to take no action if the Fraud mob bring any charges? They can, of course, postpone any action pending criminal investigation.
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