A fraudster lied about being a delivery driver in an attempt to avoid 11 parking fines.
James Barford forged delivery notes and invoices after he was caught pulling up in permit-only residential areas near Leicester city centre.
The 34-year-old had also accumulated charges for parking illegally in a loading bay near his workplace, heard magistrates.
A council investigation found he had claimed to be making business and customer deliveries on behalf of JB Designs LTD and Pivotal Retail Marketing, which is not registered on Companies House.
He also claimed to be working for Pivotal Retail Marketing on one note, but the deliveries were not associated with it.
Barford has now been ordered to pay more than £2,000 after pleading guilty to 11 charges under the Fraud Act for making the false documents, reports Leicestershire Live.
Magistrates were told that Barford had initially denied the allegations, but admitted to faking the delivery notes during an interview in March to avoid being fined.
He suggested that he acted in such a way because he was facing financial problems.
Barford was fined £2,200 in total; £846 for fabricating the delivery notes, £677 in costs, £630 in compensation and a victim surcharge of £85.
The 11 parking fines - which cost £35 each - would have come to £385 altogether, had he paid them within 14 days of being issued.
Leicester deputy city mayor, Piara Singh Clair, said: “The defendant was repeatedly parking illegally in areas close to his work and when he was caught out, he faked documents to make it look like he was making deliveries.
"Not only was he trying to avoid paying for parking, but also providing fake invoices to try to dodge paying the parking fines he’d incurred. That is quite simply fraud.
"Offences under the Fraud Act are very serious offences with the potential outcome of a prison sentence.
"The defendant has now had to pay far more money than the fines themselves in the costs, fines and compensation resulting from this successful prosecution."
