[Osem]

For years, a very dear elderly friend of ours lived opposite a local primary school and was routinely abused by inconsiderate drivers who blocked her driveway at school drop-off and pick-up times. In the afternoons it was common for a certain element of parents to turn up 30-40 mins early simply to park as close to the school as possible and with no regard for anyone else. "I'm only going to be a few minutes" was the usual initial response but that's really no use to someone who needs access to their drive there and then and has to put up with this sort of thing all the time. Often the abuse then became far worse and intimidating when she'd ask them to move to let her out or let a visitor in and there were times when cars were just left across her driveway.

I'm not condoning what he did and don't know if this sort of inconsiderate behaviour has any bearing on what happened but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it did. Parking problems around schools are always a problem and enforcement very patchy so I'm sure those frequently affected sometimes go too far purely out of frustration.