Three men behind attacks on London’s ULEZ enforcement cameras have been sentenced for bouts of vandalism a year on from the scheme’s expansion.

London’s Evening Standard reports two men from Chingford have been sentenced for causing £2712 of damage to a ULEZ camera in the Higham Hill area of Waltham Forest. It says a sentencing hearing at Thames magistrates court was told Steven Hislop, 55, of Simmons Lane, and Leonard Guy, 71, of Priory Avenue carried out an attack on the camera on August 7 this year.

It says the incident happened after a City Hall report declared that the ULEZ expansion was working, but before Bromley Council suggested pollution in the borough had not been lowered.

Hislop and Guy had been carrying a pair of gardening shears on the day of the ULEZ camera damage, and admitted they had intended to cause damage to TfL property.

In a separate case, Peter Whibley, 58, of Kingston Road in New Malden, was sentenced at Wimbledon magistrates court for an attack on an ULEZ camera in Tolworth, Kingston-upon-Thames.

He caused £1800-worth of damage to the pole holding the camera, the court heard, and admitted criminal damage on July 5.

In August last year Mayor of London Sadiq Khan expanded the ULEZ to cover the whole of London, creating the world’s largest pollution charging area.

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