A mum was slapped with a £100 parking fine for overstaying a waiting bay for nine minutes as she handed over her severely disabled son for respite care for a few hours. The Mirror reported widowed mum Charlotte Cheshire, 44, took son Adam to meet his carer for an afternoon of fun, and parked up in Telford town centre.
Adam, 11, needs 24-hour care, so respite was much needed and meant his mum could have a break from the mental and physical effort of caring for a disabled child alone, following the death of her husband in 2020. His carer was stuck in stationary traffic, however, and arrived late, meaning Charlotte overstayed in the parking area for nine minutes longer than the allowed 10-minute waiting time.
She opted to wait it out, rather than loading Adam back into the car and him thinking the planned afternoon's activity at the nearby Inflata Nation, an inflatable theme park, had been cancelled. She said: "Adam is my baby, I adore him, but he's a big child.
