A pensioner who broke her ankle in a pothole in a public car park says a council denied there was a problem even though they filled in 15 potholes in the same car park just days after her accident.
Penny Gibbons, 71, was left howling in agony after tripping in the pothole-ridden car park of Slough Crematorium when she was helping at a funeral.
Her injury – confirmed as a break in hospital – led to a year of pain which was so severe she could not even sleep.
But to her disgust, when she complained to Slough Borough Council, she says they stonewalled her complaints for three years before finally denying liability claiming no-one had ever reported a problem before.
But during her fight for justice she said she received emails from the council that showed that ten days after she tripped an order was made that the 15 potholes in the car park be filled in 'after a member of the public fell over and broke their ankle'.
