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I'm sure the trolls will be really outraged by this, and by "outraged", I mean experiencing such a surge of spiteful pleasure that they'll probably be wanking off while reading it (except that they won't be too happy about the prison sentence bit...they think that prison sentences should be given to "speeders" (i.e. all motorists) instead).

It just shows the level of callousness that accompanies the trolls' fight against the evil motorists: they would never accept the kind of behaviour below if it was perpetrated against anyone but motorists, but because it *is* against motorists, they not only accept it (thereby ignoring their usual principles of basic decency), they actually rejoice in it. I suppose an irrational, idiotic pursuit such as motorist-hating is likely to bring out the very worst in someone (I'm sure that you're not all normally liars either, like you are when you say "I'm not anti-motorist"), but it's still pretty shocking.

By the way, "_", do you agree that you're a complete twat who never has anything original to say? If so, just reply with "Don't feed the troll".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3835533.ece

Clamper had no mercy in extorting thousands from unwitting victims

A woman whose car-clamping operation extorted thousands of pounds from motorists by towing away their vehicles and blackmailing them into handing over cash has been told that she faces a prison sentence.

Rebecca Meakin=92s victims included a doctor transporting blood samples for analysis and a grandmother whose infant grandson was still in the car.

Stafford Crown Court was told that motorists were targeted without warning, often within moments of leaving the car park. They would return to find their vehicles gone and were =93blackmailed=94 into handing over nearly =A3300 to get them back.

Meakin, 27, of Heath Hayes, Staffordshire, who had denied conspiracy to blackmail, was remanded on bail for reports. She was told by Judge Simon Tonking: =93Those who commit offences of blackmail or conspiracy to blackmail are likely to receive a custodial sentence and that is certainly the sentence on the cards in this case.=94

Jurors were told that motorists who tried to warn other people using the private car parks about the practices of the clampers were threatened.

In one incident, postal workers on the early morning shift had their cars immobilised or removed. One motorist was clamped while visiting his dead wife=92s grave and another had his vehicle towed away with his medication inside.

Meakin, the owner of Rowencroft Immobilisers, was the person giving the orders to the clampers.

The clampers=92 tactics were =93aggressive and confrontational=94, often causing the motorist to break down in tears, the court was told. The clampers demanded the legitimate sum of =A395 to release the cars, but often a =93tow-away fee=94 of =A3295 was added.

Signs warning people that they could be clamped were not obvious.

=93On occasions, cars would be used to block in cars being clamped,=94 Anthony Potter, for the prosecution, said. =93The final feature is the manner in which Rowencroft demanded payment. Motorists were told only cash would do. This was a cash cow, rather than an attempt to protect private car parks. An operation not only criminal, but without compassion.=94

One of Meakin=92s victims was Tracy Cross, who had to put her grandson, Jenson, in her 4x4 while she sorted out the clampers=92 demand for =A3295 for parking at the Midland Tattoo Centre in Cannock.

Mrs Cross told the jury: =93I was standing next to my grandson, who was on the driver=92s seat and they hitched up the back of my car. My two- and-a-half-year-old grandson was on the driver=92s seat.=94

Mrs Cross, from Heath Hayes, Cannock, said she was given 15 minutes to get the money =96 in cash =96 or the car would be towed away.

Amarjit Verma, a doctor from Cannock, was taking blood samples from a 90-year-old patient for analysis. He parked in the tattoo parlour car park to collect some mail from the sorting office. When he returned he found his vehicle jacked up and clampers demanding =A3295. Although he said that it was =93vital=94 the blood was analysed in a hospital, he was told to pay cash.

He offered to pay by credit card, but Meakin refused. Kamran Khan, a former clamper who admitted the conspiracy, told jurors that one man paid =A37,000 to get his vehicle back. Asked about this, Meakin said the amount was =A3700 and it was charged to the finance company that owned the car.

Khan said that Meakin told him off for not being quick to clamp cars. He was told not to make it obvious to people that he was a clamper and to wait until motorists had parked and left before clamping them.

Meakin rejected suggestions that she made =93more than =A31,000 a day=94 from her car-clamping operation.