Parking warden told to pay £1.1k over car park machine thefts
TRUSTED employee Gary Smith has been ordered to pay £1,141 compensation after stealing cash from car park machines while working as a parking attendant.
Smith, 32, of Highgate, Cleethorpes, admitted a series of offences of theft and attempted theft between August 14 and September 5 last year.
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‘SHORT OF MONEY’: Gary Smith, of Highgate, Cleethorpes.
At an earlier hearing, Grimsby Crown Court was told that Smith was working at the time for Balfour Beatty as a civil enforcement officer (parking warden).
Smith and another defendant, Mark Fox, were involved in thefts in which a key was used to open cash boxes and steal money from pay and display car park ticket machines.
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The machines targeted were at Thrunscoe car park, Cleethorpes, and others at Somerfield, Wellington Street, in Grimsby and at the boating lake in Cleethorpes.
Individual sums taken included £334 and £141 but, on a couple of occasions, there was no money in the machines that could be taken.
Smith's responsibilities while working included issuing parking fines, the court heard.
The sum of £579 was found in Smith's car when it was stopped by the police in August last year – leaving £1,141 still missing.
Sentence had been deferred in May for six months.
At a resumed hearing before Hull Crown Court, Smith was given a nine-month suspended prison sentence, 130 hours' unpaid work and was ordered to pay £600 costs.
Richard Butters, mitigating, told the earlier hearing that Smith's work as a civil enforcement officer at the time did not include taking cash from parking machines and it was Fox who had the key.
"He was just a complete idiot," said Mr Butters.
"He was doing it to make ends meet.
"He was short of money."
Comments
by tuttutscotty
Friday, October 19 2012, 9:43AM
“this guy is well 'ard he works the doors at cleethorpes night clubs or should we not be mentioning that”
by MatQuinn
Thursday, October 18 2012, 4:57PM
“Catagory-A Chav. He's got the cap, the ear-ring, the smack-out look, the cocky "I know it all" Smirk... everything.
But the lad, may not be a chav at all - it's just the "look". What he is though,is a complete thief who deserves nothing from anyone.
Waster.”
by THEAPPLE
Thursday, October 18 2012, 4:44PM
“Book = Cover”
by oOrotavatorOo
Thursday, October 18 2012, 4:21PM
“if he doesn`t pay within 14 days does the fine double, like a parking fine would? would feel apt me thinks”
by markus250666
Thursday, October 18 2012, 3:48PM
“When you think this money goes towards our Hospitals and services and this chav steals it. then this lad makes me sick. i just hope he never needs the hospital services due to lack of finance or lack of medical equipment due to funding.”
by smoker
Thursday, October 18 2012, 9:47AM
“Another thief that deserves all he gets. I can't see any of the local motorists having a lot of sympathy for Gary.”
by davendogs
Thursday, October 18 2012, 9:13AM
“Short of cash! I wouldn't say so when knocking off in the region of £500/week. As he worked for Balfour where these fines he dished out legal?”