A blue badge holder has been left ‘stressed’ after receiving continuous fines over parking tickets she had paid for.

Mary Scott, 86, is a regular user of the car park at Rutherglen Exchange Shopping Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.

The pensioner said she’d pay up if she needed to, but insists she has paid for every ticket after the first fine and has kept them as proof.

Despite this, she said the letters keep coming.

Mary, who lives in Cambuslang, said: ‘I’m a blue badge holder and I go to the arcade all the time.

‘A few months ago I received a letter saying I hadn’t paid for one of the visits and I paid up – I thought that they were right and I hadn’t.

‘But they keep coming in – I’ve had seven letters now, all saying that I’m not paying for these tickets.

‘Luckily I’ve been keeping the tickets since then so I can prove that I had paid for a ticket.

‘It’s a nonsense. I’m in there regularly – why would I avoid paying 50p and risk having to pay a £60 fine?

‘I tried to speak to someone at the shopping centre about it, but was told the manager there wouldn’t be able to deal with parking tickets.’

She said her son Peter has helped her get some of the fines written off using the evidence she has kept..

But once one fine was cancelled and she received another the next day for a different date.

‘It’s a stress and I’m fed up with it,’ Mary added. ‘I look after my husband and this is something I could do without.

‘There was one time recently where I had a letter one day saying they had dropped the case after we had been in touch with them, and the next day another one arrived saying I owed them money again. It’s very upsetting and I’ve had enough.’

Mary is not the only person affected by apparently incorrect parking fines, with many locals complaining to the shopping centre and getting their cases dropped

Rutherglen MSP Clare Haughey previously said she was regularly hearing from constituents who had contacted her after experiencing trouble with fines at the car park.

Metro.co.uk has contacted Rutherglen Exchange Shopping Centre for comment.

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