Yeah just scaremongering over court at some point in the next 6 years. After all this wonderful advice, mum has chosen to ignore. If we ever end up being called to court, I know where to come. Thank you again to you all.

Thank you for your reply. Here is the letter here. Gladstones.pdf

Thanks FTMDave, I completely get what you are saying. We had the two letters from Smart parking. After this there was another 8 letters from Debt Recovery Plus and now from Gladstones solicitors. The last thing we want is her credit rating being affected or her having to go to court. She doesn't keep very well so can't be dealing with that extra stress. Was hoping for a way out without it having to get to that. Do you know if it will impact on her credit at the minute? I think shes thinking about paying it. Its ridiculous, but there doesn't seem to be another way out except to wait and see if they carry it through. She feels they are going to chase her all the way. Yeah 19 months. I think its the solicitors letter thats scared her. Then again this might be there last ditch effort to get that money. I really appreciate you all for taking the time to write a comment. I'm going to let her read these replies and let her decide what she wants to do.

Have also realised I said 2017 above. It was actually in 2016.

Going to try convert to pdf. Hopefully this works. This is the very first letter. PDF UPLOAD.pdf

Thank you so much for replying. There has been no correspondence with anyone at any time since the letters started no. Trying to attach the first letter received now but it keeps coming up with an error message. Will keep trying. Thank you for the link, she hasn't identified the driver at all and she lives in Scotland. What concerns me is her having to go to court though, even with that defence. Is there any other way to post this photo? I am getting a font error every time I try. Again thank you for your time and replies BazzaS.

Hi there, First of all I apologise because I know this site must see so many of these threads. I am trying hard to help my mum with parking charges she was advised by many to ignore initially. She had received letter after letter and is terrified of bad credit or court. The parking charge came from Matalan car park in Ayr, Scotland. My mum took my elderly gran there and parked in a disabled bay with the blue badge on display on 11/03/17. My mum had no idea you were required to pay for disabled parking and spent approximately half an hour in matalan. She received her first letter on 16/03/17 and has kept every letter. The initial letter has picture of her car registration entering and leaving. A few threatening letters later and now we have a letter from Gladstones solicitors threatening possible court action in the next 6 years and a bad credit rating. We have two weeks (one week left) to either pay up £140 or face the possible consequences. I would be forever grateful if someone could give me advice on where we go from here? Do we pay the full £140? Do we fight to pay the original fine? Can we appeal? Whatever it is I am willing to write letters, make a 1000 phone calls or pay the full fine myself just to get rid of this worry for my mum. I dont think ignoring it is going to help anyone in this situation. My local trading standards weren't much use. She said they had never taken anyone to our local court, but eventually they would. We could continue to ignore or pay. I will pay the full thing before ignoring it but something is telling me there may be something else we can do, perhaps pay the initial fine? If anyone out there has any advice or experience could you please help? Thank you so much