The Yorkshire Clamper

The Yorkshire Clamper

Watch this episode now on 4oD Ted Evans: The Yorkshire Clamper

First-time director Leon Dean meets Britain's most notorious car clamper.

Ted Evans is the thorn in the side of the beautiful Yorkshire village of Haworth, the home of the Bronte sisters.

Residents spurn him and tourists fear him. He has been accused of immobilising a car while its driver was asleep, clamping a minibus for disabled children and clamping the prime minister of Australia.

In 2003 his company, Carstoppers, won the RAC Dick Turpin Award for the nation's worst clamper.

And Ted's car park ends up being debated in Westminster when he clamps former parliament speaker Betty Boothroyd.

Since this film was first shown, the government announced that car clamping on private land was to be banned as part of the Freedom Bill in Autumn 2010.

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First Shown

Date Time Channel
Friday 04 September 2009 Channel 4

Last Shown

Date Time Channel
Monday 14 September 2009 8.30PM More4

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