REGARDING motorist Lesley Shorrock and the excess parking notice wrongly issued (LET, December 24). Looking at the sequence of events this stinks of the cowboy mentality.
The notice, although it states various identifying details, fails crucially because it omits the expiry time and the ID number of the parking ticket.
Clearly, the onus is placed on the motorist to vindicate themselves. Lose your ticket and you're lumbered. Secondly, can the time when the overstay notice is issued by the parking attendant be legally verified?
Mrs Shorrock should be compensated for the distress, anguish and tears caused, especially because she had remonstrated on the spot, but was cold shouldered and still ordered to pay the excess charge. Catch someone else on a bad day and we may well have a Public Order offence to contend with.
N MOMONIAT (Mr) (address supplied).
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