I am 73 years old and would be grateful to receive your advice in order to reply to a parking charge which I have received from the operators of a private car park. Four months ago I had a major spinal operation because of the severe pain in my legs caused by compression of the spinal cord. Following this I now have a Disabled Badge - I can only walk a very limited distance and I parked very close to the entrance door to a shop served by the car park that I needed to enter. I was not aware that there were disabled parking bays in the car park but I ensured that I did not obstruct any road access around the car park or indeed any of the parking bays and pedestrian passage. Furthermore I displayed my Disabled Badge.

On return (much less than 30 minutes later) I found a ticket on my windscreen. Only two days after the "parking offence" my partner had to call 999 and paramedics were sent to me - I simply could not move because of severe pain. I have a copy of the dated report made out by the paramedics and of course I can copy my Disabled Badge. Your help would be very much appreciated.