Parents and children at a Herne Hill school are desperate for the return of their human-shaped parking sign which appears to have been stolen.
Bewildered parents and children were “outraged” when they arrived at Judith Kerr Primary School to find the sign, named Sophie, was missing on Tuesday, October 10.
One local parent has claimed police have located the culprit. However, the school is still awaiting the sign’s return.
Local parent Celeste Hicks said: “My kids were outraged but then again I was quite outraged already.”
She added: “I was upset so we asked around and made up posters and put them out and about. Somebody shared it on a WhatsApp group and somebody said they’d seen it and, at that point, I thought I’d try the police.”
Sophie is one of three one-metre-tall, humanoid signs that parents bought in June to make the traffic situation safer around the school.
Celeste said some parents had become “scared” to walk their kids to school due to parked cars blocking drivers’ sight lines on Half Moon Lane.
Cars parked illegally on yellow lines were causing vehicles to come “flying around corners”, putting children at risk.
Celeste says, since Sophie’s kidnap, cars have been seen parking on yellow lines once again.
The Met Police could not confirm whether or not the sign had been located.
Instead, a spokesperson said the officer leading the investigation would make contact with the school principal to “discuss the return of the sign in more detail”.