A driver who constantly used his mother’s disabled blue badge to park outside a pub has been fined.

Martin Gazi, pleaded guilty of blue badge fraud and was ordered to pay £1,600.

Gazi was spotted parking his BMW Z5 outside Taps pub, in Silver Street, Enfield Town, on March 24, 2014 without a parking ticket but with a blue badge.

The blue badge used by Mr Gazi had an expiry date of October 5, 2013 on it, however Mr Gazi  carefully covered the date when displaying the badge in the hope that no one would notice.

The blue badge had been issued by Croydon Council to Mr Gazi’s mother but had been cancelled after being reported lost.

Enfield Council’s cabinet member for environment, Councillor Chris Bond, said: “It is incredible that anyone would deliberately misuse their own mother’s blue badge in an attempt to park where he would not normally be permitted.

“This man will wake up today and realise that his decision to park in this manner has ultimately cost him £1,600. I sincerely hope that this sentence acts as a proper deterrent to the kind of people who think that it is appropriate to misuse someone else’s blue badge in this manner.”