Ranger locked woman in park due to health and safety

Published: 11:59AM GMT twenty-three February 2010

Anneka Bair, a 23-year-old barmaid, pronounced she was trapped in the 3 hactare parkland at night notwithstanding cheering at the ranger as he sealed the gates.

Miss Bair pronounced she ran towards the ranger "screaming at the tip of my lungs" after conference him shutting the gates, but that he gathering afar in his van.

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But the Croydon Council worker after explained he had not been means to come in the play ground after dim to check for visitors given it was opposite health and reserve rules.

Miss Bair was discovered from the play ground when she called her beloved Nick Lovell, who was on his approach to encounter her, and he confronted the motorist as he was withdrawal the area, perfectionist that he let her out.

Miss Bair said: "When I confronted him about locking me in he told me it was a crack of health and reserve manners for rangers to go in to the play ground after dim given they could be attacked.

"I was usually in there for a couple of minutes, but only suppose if I had been a licentiate or something it could have given me a heart attack."

Croydon Council apologised to Ms Bair and pronounced they are "reviewing" the times they close play ground gates in the precinct to safeguard health and reserve issues are addressed.

Owen Giddings, the parks coordinator, said: "I will be reviewing the stream complement of locking parks after dim to equivocate any risk to staff and the public."

A legislature mouthpiece pronounced the ranger had "given dubious information" about health and reserve manners to Ms Bair, adding: "The legislature regrets this, and given being brought to the notice, the play ground ranger has been oral to."