Anger over parking fine for picking up ill mum

Daughter had driven three hours to see mum and take her out

A WOMAN left housebound by a blood clot was angered to find her daughter was hit by a parking ticket while picking her up.

Denise Angwin, 48, lives on Factory Road, in Hinckley, and her daughter Hannah had parked on double yellow lines for 10 minutes, near the junction with Teign Bank Road.

Ms Angwin claims there was nowhere else to park on the street and Hannah needed to park near her front door as she could only walk a short distance after spending a week in hospital.

The mum had treatment at George

Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton for a bilateral pulmonary embolism and pneumonia, after suddenly collapsing after returning from a week’s holiday in Turkey.

She said: “My daughter and I were going to get my prescription and a bit of shopping, because I wasn’t able to get out.

“She’d come from especially to see me.

“The council could have been a little more forgiving, it’s not like I do it every week. There was nowhere else to park.”

She added: “It annoys me because it was for a genuine medical problem.

Chichester I’d spent a week in hospital on oxygen. I’m still off work now.”

Ms Angwin has a very active job and she hopes to be back at work by mid-December, meaning she will have been off for two months.

She wrote to Leicestershire County Council disputing the fine and explaining why her daughter had parked there but the authority did not accept their reasons.

The council said in its reply to Ms Angwin: “Your vehicle was observed and there was no sign of any Traffic Regulation Order exempt activity