A disabled grandmother and blue badge holder who was fined for parking on a pavement says she feels victimised.

Susan Howard was issued with a ticket after parking on the pavement outside her daughter’s house in Verney Road, Dagenham – despite most of the neighbouring residents doing the same and getting off scot-free.

The 67-year-old regularly parks in the same spot while looking after her grandchildren, Daisy, 10 and four-year-old Harry and has never been fined before.

Thinking that the £65 ticket had been issued because she’d parked next to double yellow lines, Susan appealed.

But in a rejection letter the council said she had actually been fined for parking on the pavement.

Susan’s daughter, Emily Johnson, says none of the other cars parked on the pavement had been ticketed.

“If others had done that [parked on the pavement] and got tickets, hands up we would have paid the fine but because my mother is the only one to receive a ticket it’s unfair,” she said.

“I have spoken to other residents in the street and as far as I am aware nobody else has received a ticket.

“I am disappointed that they are discriminating against her because she was the only one who was issued a ticket.”

Susan, who lives in nearby Ockendon, is now appealing the ticket.

“I felt annoyed, very annoyed,” she said. “I felt like I have been victimised because I am disabled.

“Everyone parks their cars on the pavement. They fined me for parking but everyone else is on the pavement – so how could they do that?”

Susan, who is registered as disabled, was born with displacement of the hips and is currently awaiting a knee replacement.

She is dependent on her car to visit her daughter and care for her grandchildren. But since receiving the ticket on March 23 she has not visited to babysit the youngsters.

A council spokesman said he was unable to comment until the appeal process was finished.