ABANDONING a car in a County Durham park has cost a woman more than £750 in court.
Roxanne Fountain of Plantation Street in Leadgate was charged with abandoning the vehicle under the Refuse Disposal Act 1978.
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It was left in Eden Park off Durham Road in Consett on or around June 22, 2021.
County Durham and Darlington Magistrates, sitting at Peterlee on Tuesday this week, found the case proved in Fountain's absence.
She was fined £440, ordered to pay £280 in court costs plus a £44 surcharge, bringing the total owed to £764.
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