... Another fine mess!

But soon after the first letter he received another, this time demanding he pay £140 within 14 days – or there would be court action and bailiffs.

Mr Moulson believes he may have been fined because he passed through the car park on his way home – to skip the traffic – later in the day.

He said: “I don’t think the camera that caught me leaving is positioned right for people leaving Burger King. “I don’t think it’s picking you up leaving.” Mr Moulson says he was recorded entering at 1.08pm and leaving at 5.20pm, exceeding the three-hour maximum stay.

But he said: “I was there for five to 10 minutes.”

Mr Moulson added: “It’s stressed me out.

“I’ve already told people to avoid that car park.

“People ask me if I’m going to Burger King and I say: ‘not a chance.’”

Mr Moulson is not the first to complain about ‘unfair’ parking charges from Civil Enforcement Ltd.

A recruitment company boss was being pursued by Civil Enforcement Ltd even though the car was parked up five miles away at the time.

Mike Turner, of Huddersfield-based recruitment consultancy Prodigium Group, was incensed to receive a parking charge for supposedly parking all night at the Leeds Road Retail Park.

Linda Johnson was hit with a £100 charge for exceeding the parking limit at Leeds Road Retail Park – even though she hadn’t actually parked up at all.

And a charity volunteer was one of several people to be hit with a £100 parking charge for simply driving through the popular retail park.

Joyce Sugden was shocked to receive a demand for payment for exceeding a threehour free parking limit at the Leeds Road Retail Park. But she hadn’t parked there at all. The Examiner has tried to contact Civil Enforcement Ltd but has been unable to do so.