A BRADFORD mother who used her son’s disabled parking badge when he was at school and not in the car has been ordered to pay more than £700.

Razwana Ahmed, 47, failed to attend a hearing at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates' Court yesterday, but was fined in her absence.

The court heard that at around 2.40pm on September 17 last year, Ahmed used the blue badge to secure a parking space in Kirkgate, Bradford, despite the badge’s holder, her son Mohammed Nasir, not being present.

The offence was noted by a Bradford Council warden, and Ahmed was given a fixed penalty notice, which she initially disputed.

She was said to have later admitted the offence to during an interview with the Council, in which she accepting her son was at Southfield Special School, where he is a pupil, at the time she used his badge.

She was ordered to pay £519.39 costs, fined £200, and given a £20 victim surcharge, all to be paid within 28 days.