Hearse and mourners' limousine clamped as undertakers prepared to take coffin to funeral

A hearse and mourners' limousine were clamped as undertakers prepared to take a coffin to a funeral - and then they were held to ransom for £200.

The undertakers had left their cars for a few moments while they went to a nearby chapel to check on the arrangements for the funeral.

But when they returned, their cars had been clamped and the company responsible, ISTM clamping, was demanding £200.



This is not the first time staff at ISTM clamping company have landed themselves in trouble.

Last year, they won the RAC Foundation's Dick Turpin Award for "highway robbery". The undertakers, from Co-op Funerals, had left the vehicles in a car park in Poplar, East London.

ISTM eventually removed the clamps free of charge.