An 80-year-old disabled woman from Swansea has been fined £100, because she took too long to do her food shop. Ann Tawe-Jones from Birchgrove, who uses a walking stick, was parked in Morrisons car park at Morfa Shopping Park for two hours and six minutes on Thursday, January 19, and received a whopping parking fine for overstaying.
Mrs Jones, who lives alone, said she went to the supermarket to enjoy the warmth of the company, but that she took longer to shop than most people due to her mobility issues and was upset to receive the parking fine. In the past two years, she said she'd received two parking fines from Euro Car Parks, which manages the Morfa and Neath Morrisons car parks.
Unaware the maximum parking time at the Morfa Morrisons car park was 90 minutes, Mrs Jones said it was not until she complained to the supermarket's customer service desk about her parking ticket that she was informed of the rules.
