Three men behind attacks on London’s ULEZ enforcement cameras have been sentenced for bouts of vandalism a year on from the controversial scheme’s expansion.
In August last year Mayor of London Sadiq Khan expanded the ULEZ to cover the whole of London, creating the world’s largest pollution charging area.
Motorists in non-compliant vehicles which are not exempt now face a £12.50 daily charge for using London’s roads.
The expansion policy provoked a wave of attacks on enforcement cameras, including using spray paint, bolt cutters, and even explosives.
Conservative mayoral candidate Susan Hall lost her bid for City Hall after promising to ditch the expansion, and figures released last week reveal more than £322 million in ULEZ fines have been handed out so far.
On August 22, two men from Chingford were sentenced for causing £2712 of damage to a ULEZ camera in the Higham Hill area of Waltham Forest.
A sentencing hearing at Thames magistrates court was told Steven Hislop, 55, of Simmons Lane, and Leonard Guy, 71, of Priory Avenue carried out an attack on the camera on August 7 this year.
The incident happened after a City Hall report declared that the ULEZ expansion was working, but before Bromley Council suggested pollution in the borough had not been lowered.
Hislop and Guy had been carrying a pair of gardening shears on the day of the ULEZ camera damage, and admitted they had intended to cause damage to TfL property.
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