A MOTORIST is fuming after parking wardens drew yellow lines around her car and fined her.

Karen Lamont, of Bisterne Avenue, had to pay £250 after parking on an unmarked stretch of Upper Walthamstow Road on Monday morning.

Returning to the spot that evening, she found her car gone and a series of patchy double yellow lines in the space where it had been.

The lines, which are not squared off as regulations require, were apparantly painted around the wheels of her Citroen Saxo.

Ms Lamont said: "I'm disgusted, and shocked it happened to me because I parked legally. I came home from work and it was gone - I thought it had been stolen."

Ms Lamont's mother, Jacqueline Flanders, said the photographic evidence justifying the towing appeared to show the vehicle parked with two wheels on the pavement. Ms Lawson denies parking illegally.

She is planning to appeal against the decision.

Waltham Forest Council's cabinet member for environment, Cllr Bob Belam, said: "We do not comment on individual cases. However the motorist does have the right to challenge the penalty through an independent appeals process."

He claimed that only 0.0045 per cent of penalty charge notices issued by Waltham Forest are successfully challenged at the Parking and Traffic Appeals Service.