A man fined £100 after rushing to a shopping centre to pick up his disabled mother who had fallen ill has urged a parking company to "show some compassion".
Darren Hayhurst, from Ash, near Canterbury in Kent, has had two parking appeals rejected despite him insisting the incident was an emergency and leaving his car unattended for just 15 minutes.
His 70-year-old mother Rita Armstrong, who is registered disabled, suffers from vertigo and experienced an episode at the Charlton Shopping Centre in Dover, Kent.