A blue badge cheat from Feltham who used her blind daughter's permit to illegally park has been slapped with £470 in fines and costs.

Hazel Sharp of Townfield Road was caught four times for using her child's blue badge and parking all day in Point Pleasant in Wandsworth.

Councillor Jonathan Cook, Wandsworth council's transport spokesman, said: “Sadly there are lots of people who try to fiddle the system in this way.

"The blue badge scheme exists to help disabled people get out and about, drive to work, visit friends or go shopping.

"It was not invented to give their relatives a passport to free parking.”

Council's across London continue to crackdown on the misuse of the badges which allow holders who are registered blind, or have severe walking difficulties, to park closer to shops and services for free.

But badges must be used lawfully which means only if the disabled person is either driving the vehicle or is the passenger and being dropped-off or picked-up at the location the badge is being used.

In February, a woman from Heston was order to pay £200 for using her dead mother's blue badge.