HARD-PRESSED motorists plagued by speed cameras, high fuel prices and soaring insurance bills rarely feel they have reason to celebrate.

So news that one of their number has won a court battle against the dreaded wheel clampers has brought cheer to drivers across Dorset.

Footage captured from the site in 2008

The Daily Echo revealed that pensioner Diane Horsfall won a legal battle against the “modern-day Dick Turpins” in Poole County Court.

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Now others are queuing up for advice on how to take on the wheel clampers.

Solicitor Jon Payne of Horsey Lightly Fynn in Bournemouth said he has been approached by other motorists since Mrs Horsfall got her £150 fine back.

And such is the demand for advice that he has written advice for Daily Echo readers at bournemouthecho.co.uk and also put it on his firm’s website.

“I have heard from people who were clamped in the same car park as Mrs Horsfall and from others who have been fined in other areas,” he said.

Mrs Horsfall was one of scores of people given fines in a car park behind shops in Latimer Road, Winton, near the Salvation Army building.

She won her case after the court agreed signs displayed in the car park were “inadequate.”

The Daily Echo filmed representatives of parking firm Ultimate and SIG Parking Services hiding behind a wall waiting to clamp cars as soon as drivers had walked away from them.

Another motorist now hoping to get her money back is Kathryn Hay, who was clamped while she was running community drama classes for adults with learning difficulties.

“I had just set up in business and £150 is a huge amount of money,” she said. “I complained at the time but the clampers did nothing about it but I’m hoping to get my money back this time.”

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