The Daily Observer London Desk: Reporter- Kathryn Williams
Lawrence Carnie, 58, has been on a nine-month crusade after he was handed a parking fine for a ’22-hour’ stay in June last year at a car park in Dartford, Kent
A furious driver says he is prepared to pay thousands to fight a £100 parking charge he was slapped with after staying in a retail park for ‘just half an hour’.
Lawrence Carnie, 58, has been on a nine-month crusade after he was handed the fine for a ’22-hour’ stay at a car park in Dartford, Kent in June last year.
Mr Carnie said he visited the retail park for half an hour stints over two consecutive days but was punished due to malfunctioning CCTV number plate recognition.
The car park is free for three hours but he claims he was never logged leaving the first time so was hit with the charge for overstaying, as to the system it look as if he arrived at 3.20pm on June 10 and left at 1.30pm the next day.
He appealed to the parking enforcers, Group Nexus, and the independent adjudicator, Parking On Private Land Appeals (POPLA), but was rejected both times.
