A takeaway customer who says he stopped outside a well-known pizza shop for minutes has been hit with a £100 charge despite 'paying to park there'.

Shak Khan from Great Barr said he had visited his local Pizza Hut branch in Newton Road in the Scott Arms area but fell foul of parking restrictions in Bromford Walk, the road by the side of the shop.

Shak said he had parked in the privately-owned side road, with his wife, on Thursday, November 13 shortly before 3.30pm.

He went into the shop to get a pizza and spotted the camera and signs, with his wife in the car then paying for a ticket for an hour.

But to his horror days later he received the £100 penalty charge, issued on Tuesday, November 18.

The couple had been caught out by ANPR cameras in the street which Shak claims do not give

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