JUBILANT motorist Bob Kalber has slammed parking chiefs after it took more than six months to sort out a disputed parking fine.

Mr Kalber, of Narcot Road, Chalfont St Giles, was disgusted when he received a fine for £60 after parking in a disabled bay last August while out shopping in Uxbridge, Middlesex.

But the 65-year-old could hardly believe it when he received a letter earlier this month saying the matter had been dropped.

He said: "I think it's quite incredible that it has taken all this time to arrive at a decision that any ordinary citizen would have arrived at in a few seconds.

"It has taken an awful amount of time and administrative waste."

The 65-year-old, a disabled badge holder, claimed the parking attendant failed to see his badge through his car windscreen and said he would rather go to prison than pay up.

But after twice appealing against the fine, providing a copy of his disabled badge and writing letters to parking chiefs at the London Borough of Hillingdon, his fight continued to drag on.

Mr Kalber, a former taxi driver, added: "I would have fought it right the way through to the end. I'm not going to just put up with it."

Jenny Vickers, a spokesman for the London Borough of Hillingdon, explained that Mr Kalber would have got his notice to owner form on March 8 which he would have filled out and sent back.

The matter was then concluded and the fine waived on April 3.

She added: "Obviously it has taken some time but that time included the first appeal which he lost because he did not send his badge in."