Two women have been fined for blue badge fraud after taking them from family members.

Vi-Yen Tang, of Bronte Close, Erith, was sentenced at Bexley Magistrates' Court on March 13 after pleading guilty to using her uncle's blue badge parking permit which had been reported stolen.

Council investigators spotted Tang's boyfriend's car displaying the blue badge on four separate occasions while she was in Greenwich town centre.

They conducted an early morning visit to his house, where she had been staying, to retrieve the badge.

Tang attended an interview under caution where she admitted misusing her uncle's badge while working in Greenwich, but was adamant that she was not aware that it had been reported stolen.

Tang pleaded guilty by post to four charges under Section 117(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.

She received a fine of £260 and ordered to pay costs of £85 with a £30 victim surcharge.

On the same day at Bexley Magistrates' Court, a woman pleaded guilty to misusing her grandmother's blue badge to park her vehicle in a disabled parking bay in Wrottesley Road, Plumstead.

Hena Khurrum was ordered to pay a fine of £124, a victim surcharge of £15 and pay the council's legal costs of £455.