A theatre worker thought he had been the victim of an April Fools’ Day prank when he woke up on April 1 to find not only a disabled parking bay painted around his car but a £110 parking fine on the windscreen.

Matt Armstrong, from West Norwood, south London, claims the parking bay appeared “overnight” two years after his neighbour requested a parking bay for her husband – despite her phoning Lambeth Council to cancel after he died earlier this year, reports the Evening Standard.

'Council painted a disabled parking bay round my car… and then fined me £110' https://t.co/KM6e9NYg9k pic.twitter.com/sqgfJIEx5S — Evening Standard (@standardnews) April 5, 2016

“Who in their right mind would do this? When I saw the painted bay and the ticket, I thought it was an April Fools’ joke,” he told the newspaper.

“I was livid when I saw it. Is this what we pay our council tax for? It’s an absolute joke.”

Lambeth Council confirmed it would cancel the fine after being contacted by the Evening Standard.

A spokeswoman said: “We’ll cancel the fixed penalty notice and are investigating why there was some confusion around the marking of the disabled bays.”