Alexandra Miller was caught by a parking inspector at a disabled bay on Basil Street.
A woman has been fined £1,000 after she used her dead 101-year-old grandad’s blue badge to park near Harrods. Alexandra Miller was caught using the badge to park in a disabled bay on Basil Street in Knightsbridge on February 22, 2022. Her grandfather had died a year earlier.
The 35-year-old was spotted by a Kensington and Chelsea parking inspector and quizzed about her badge, City of London Magistrates Court heard on February 15. The Chelsea resident explained that the badge had belonged to her late grandfather and when the inspector issued her with a fine she apologised for using it.
Issuing the fine Magistrate Sue Dale said: “In this case, the lady’s grandfather had been dead for a year. There is going to be a fine in this case of £1,000 because we consider the circumstances of this offense to be aggravated.” Miller did not appear in court.
Last year a man was charged £1,241 for using his dead wife’s disabled parking permit to park his Mercedes on the same road. He was fined £726 for the offence at City of London Magistrates Court on February 2, 2022, and asked to pay Kensington and Chelsea Council a further £515 to cover costs.
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