Car clamping firm doctored ticket machine to con motorists out of cash
A car clamping firm doctored a ticket machine to con Birmingham motorists out of hundreds of pounds, a court heard.
Car Clamping Securities is accused of systematically defrauded motorists using a city centre car park between May 2008 and November 2009.
One motorist who believed he had hours still left on the parking ticket he had purchased was shocked to discover his vehicle had been clamped and towed away.
The Roses car park in New Canal Street, where he had left his Citroen Berlingo, was operated by the clamping firm, it was alleged.
Mark Wall QC, prosecuting at Birmingham Crown Court, said the most serious and obvious way the company, run by Steven Ryan, conned their victims was by doctoring a ticket machine.
