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February 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Julian Gavaghan
Last updated at 4:45 PM on 1st February 2012
- Marcus Foley even ripped car’s soft top to take away the valid parking ticket before clamping vehicle
- Targeted cars with open windows and used a cane to dislodge tickets
- Also clamped cars before tickets had run out, pocketing £100 a time
Swagger: Marcus Foley leaves Coventry Crown court after handed a 12-month suspended sentence despite his dishonesty and craftiness on the job forcing victims to pay hundreds of pounds in fines and clamping fees
A rogue car clamper who made thousands of pounds by towing away vehicles after stealing their pay-and-display tickets walked free from court today.
Marcus Foley’s victims had to fork out up to £300 to have their vehicles freed.
Nicola O’Connor was even ordered to pay after the soft-top roof of her Suzuki Vitara was ripped open so the ticket could be removed from the windscreen.
Foley, 20, deliberately targeted cars
with open windows and used a bamboo cane to dislodge the valid tickets
before demanding a £300 release fee from the compound.
Coventry Crown Court heard how he pocketed up to £100 for every car he clamped and got towed away between 2009 and 2010.
He
later admitted four charges of defrauding his victims out of money and
one of fraudulently acquiring an identity badge as a clamper.
But
Judge Robert Orme said jailing Foley would be a ‘retrograde step’ –
after receiving a letter from his employer describing him as ‘honest’
and ‘punctual’.
Sentencing
him to 12 months in jail, suspended for two years, he said: ‘You are a
competent young man and have to make the most of your abilities –
instead of working for crooks.
‘You were involved in threatening car clamping activities.
‘These
acts were prevalent not only in Birmingham but also in other cities
across the UK in recent years – which have rightly resulted in custodial
sentences.
‘What you did would simply involve
wrongly charging motorists – by either removing their tickets or
pretending they were not valid, before putting pressure on them to pay
up to have the clamping removed.
‘The manner in which this occurred involved threats and a menacing attitude.
‘One
of your victims was Doreen Baker, she was elderly – she was very
distressed indeed when she was threatened and had to hand over a large
amount of money.
‘You were also rude aggressive and arrogant.’
The
court heard several victims complained to Birmingham City Council’s
Trading Standards claiming their cars – all parked in the same Roses car
park in Digbeth, Birmingham – were wrongly clamped.
Yellow peril: Foley clamped cars with valid tickets because he could earn £100 a time
Timothy
Hannam, prosecuting, told Coventry Crown Court at an earlier hearing
that Foley bullied dozens of motorists by ‘menacingly’ demanding they
hand over cash ‘or never see their car again’.
He said: ‘The defendant was rude and aggressive and would defraud and extort money from motorists.
‘Sometimes tickets were dislodged and moved in a CCTV black-spot in the compound.
‘He
would demand more than £300 to release the vehicles and this was often
done menacingly – the threat being that the fee would be paid or the
vehicle would not be seen again.’
On one occasion Foley clamped a driver after the ticket had fallen onto the front seat.
Victim: Michele Cavens, 50, was told she would have to pay Marcus Fowley £135 after he claimed she did not have a ticket
After the driver confronted him about the ticket, Foley replied: ‘It’s f**king tough’.
Foley also threatened frail pensioner Doreen Baker, in her 70s, and her elderly sister after she bought a £2 ticket to park all day.
When she returned to her car which Foley had clamped and he demanded she pay £175 to release the vehicle claiming the ticket was not visible.
Mr Hannam told the court: ‘Mrs Baker began crying and shaking as the defendant threatened to have the car towed away.’
At the time of the offences Foley, from Quinton, Birmingham, was employed by firm Car Clamping Securities (CCS), which is still operating.
The court heard CCS trapped motorists by tampering with machines so they printed out invalid tickets.
Clampers would then swoop on the vehicles before towing them to their compound in Ladywood, Birmingham.
Last February CCS boss Steven Ryan was jailed for 30 months after being convicted of conspiracy to defraud motorists.
Trading
Standards’ Operations Manager, Vir Ahluwalia, said in some instances
Foley had removed pay and display parking tickets from vehicles before
clamping them – claiming they never had a ticket.
He said: ‘Some of the people he conned were elderly and terrified by his aggressive and bullying tactics.
‘We even found pictures on Foley’s phone of tickets in people’s cars who he claimed had not had a ticket or exceeded their time.
‘It seemed he was hell-bent on clamping people and making as much money as possible.’
Foley,
who served six months in a young offenders institute on weapons
offences last year, was given a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for
two years, by Judge Orme.
He
was also ordered to complete a 12 month supervision order, wear an
electronic tag for three months and be under a curfew between 9pm and
6am during that time.
The
defendant was also ordered to undergo an intervention programme – to
understand his victim’s anger – and pay £1,000 compensation to them.
Michelle Caverns was given £300, Doreen Baker £500 and Andrew Williams £200.
Foley refused to comment when leaving court.
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The judge should be put away for being an out and out idiot.
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See the joke you call judges is still going strong. Time this position was voted on by the people instead of jobs for the boys,your judges with the exception of a very few, obviously live on nother planet!!
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Rick from London is as stupid as the judge and on the same level as this appology for a man.
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Won’t take long before this piece of Cr@@@P is back in front of another stupid judge
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All tickets/permits should be ‘stick-on’, not just a piece of paper to be placed on the dashboard. It simply is not good enough!
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Good Im glad he got away with it the stupid people shouldnt have been so careless!
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HE MUST BE A TORY DONOR
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The sentence in an obscenity! He would have been fined more for driving in a bus lane! Don’t call this justice, the courts are a farce!
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Exactly what is the extent of mental disability required to be appointed a Judge these days?
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I’m glad I had the good fortune to leave the UK a few years ago. The country that I knew as a child no longer exists…
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