A mother has hit out at clampers who she claims tried to nab her car while her daughter was having an asthma attack in the back seat.
Karen Jorgenson told the Enfield Independent that she had panicked when daughter Mellanie - who had just taken a GCSE exam - started to have an attack.
She pulled into Trade Close, off Green Lanes in Enfield, but failed to notice signs stating that the road was private land.
The pair headed to a pharmacy to fetch some medication, but had to turn back to the car as Mellanie was feeling too faint - a situation which in the past has seen her end up in A&E on a breathing machine.
And with the teenager vomiting and fighting to breathe, Ms Jorgenson claims that clampers told her they would take the car after she had called for an ambulance.
She was hit with a £100 parking ticket and a £147 clamp release fee, which Ms Jorgenson's son had to come and pay while the girl's father took her to hospital.
She said: "I couldn't understand how anybody could actually do that - watch a child have an asthma attack.
"It was unbelievable."
A manager at Newline Securities, which issued the ticket, said that if Ms Jorgenson could provide proof that her daughter was having an asthma attack then the firm would refund the money.
"I know there are a lot of cowboy firms out there," he said, "but we are not one of them."
