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PCN from Parking Control Management using doctored photos.

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  • D_P_Dance
    D_P_Dance Posts: 11,592 Forumite
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    Personally, after the UKPC scandal

    https://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

    I would doubt that any PPC would be so daft as to doctor photographs.  This surely might be conduct likely to pervert the course of justice if they put them in a WS.    

    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • Ralph-y
    Ralph-y Posts: 4,787 Forumite
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    viewing the metadata of a jpeg may revel information
    How do I view metadata in a JPEG?
    Viewing EXIF data in Windows is easy. Just right-click on the photo in question and select “Properties”. Click on the “Details” tab and scroll down—you'll see all kinds of information about the camera used, and the settings the photo was taken with.

    Ralph B)

  • Munduru
    Munduru Posts: 6 Forumite
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    Had problems with the same TRACE still sending me PCN a year and a half later. The BPA acknowledged the error of the issuing company including TRACE but they have not stopped sending PCN (I believe a total of 10!). It is beginning to feel like harassment! I have had to contact CAB to assist with a final letter to them. 
  • nosferatu1001
    nosferatu1001 Posts: 12,961 Forumite
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    Sue them.  LBA first.
  • Munduru
    Munduru Posts: 6 Forumite
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    I have received a Traffic PCN and I can definitely say I was not on that road. I looked at the image given and it was not clear who was in it and you could not see the number plate! Somehow my number plate seems to be added as separately but the image does not show anything except a blue car turning on the road. Apart from that the local shows a directive that was issued in May 2020 (this was during lockdown)- 2 July  2020 because of roadworks somewhere else.
    I appealed and went to the junction referred to and took photographs of the road with no signage but the appeal has been rejected! (attached images). The reject letter was issued by NSL! I am being told I can appeal on 'specific grounds'. What does that mean? Help

  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 44,042 Forumite
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    edited 30 July 2020 at 1:56PM
    If this is a council ticket @Munduru, you need to post over on the PePiPoo forum. If it's a private parking ticket, this isn't your thread to post on, please open a new one of your own. Please decide what it is you're dealing with and act accordingly. 
    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
  • Munduru
    Munduru Posts: 6 Forumite
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    Thank you @Umkomaas. My apologies, I was not aware I was posting on someone else's thread.
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