Motorists face new £15 'victims levy'

[dipsydoodle]

Motorists in England and Wales fined for minor offences face having to pay bigger penalties under a government scheme to compensate victims of crime.

Since 2007, a £15 surcharge has been added to the fines of all people convicted of a crime, to raise money for support services for crime victims.

Now ministers want to extend the scheme to on-the-spot fines and fixed penalty notices for a range of offences.

They say the offences that could be targeted are not victimless crimes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8437440.stm

Fixed penalty notices implies it will be added to parking fines. :(

[Hopeless Romantic]

1. Well if people insist on using nasty polluting, climate warming, dangerous instruments of the devil

then they deserve all the fines they get.

There should be a £500 a week fine just for the offence of owning one and the money raised should be used to provide bicycles, high visibility jackets and crash helmets for the poor.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

2. How dare those bastards funnel money to victims of crime

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