A former West End showgirl, who discovered she had months to live when trying to collect evidence to back her case for getting back her disabled parking badge and pass, was buried with her badge.

Julie Green, 74, died earlier this month at Trinity Hospice, Clapham, after months of fighting to get her disabled parking badge back from her local council.

Green, a charity shop worker, took it upon herself to get the appropriate X-rays and evidence to justify her need for a disabled badge, only to discover that she had months to live.

The diagnosis of terminal cancer left Julie and her partner of 15 years, Richard Baggeley shocked, but even more so when the diagnosis failed to grant Ms Green with a badge.

It is claimed that her badge was removed after new guidelines were put in place, forcing Green to reapply and then later be refused by a council occupational therapist; ruling that she had problems with her breathing and not with her mobility despite Green suffering from degenerative arthritis.

It was only after the help of local MP Justine Greening that Green was issued her new badge, but only very shortly before Julie was moved to the hospice where she died.

Baggeley said: “One of her wishes was ’I wish I can keep the damn thing with me’.

“Half of it is in the cardboard coffin with her there. When she gets there she is able to say I can have free parking.”