Driver accused of fake disability

Teri Knight said she wants an apology from the traffic warden

A woman from Brighton has received an apology after a traffic warden accused her of faking her disability.

Teri Knight, who had a hip replacement four years ago, said she had to take her trousers off to reveal her scar to prove her disability to the warden.

Ms Knight had parked her car on yellow lines outside her home to unload shopping with her blue badge on show.

The warden then did not believe her and accused her of stealing the badge but now the council has apologised.

Ms Knight said: "He kept on at me the parking attendant, hovering outside the gates and really intimidating me.

"I could not move so I felt the only possible way to show him I had any disability at all was to take my jeans off and show him the scar.

"At which he said he could not see it but it is 12 inches long so I told him to look closer and at that point I really lost my rag and asked him to leave."

Ms Knight complained to the council which issued a letter of apology.

It said it was sorry for any distress caused and that it was not for a parking attendant to question somebody's disability.

Since the incident, the council said it had run through the rules concerned with blue badges with all its parking attendants.

Ms Knight said she was hoping for a personal apology from the traffic warden himself.