Holiday car parking firm dumps luxury cars including an £80k Range Rover and £57k Mercedes in water-bogged horse field
Two horses were seen playing and rolling around the vehicles that owners paid £10 a day for the 'secure' facility
BRITS flying off on holiday left their luxury cars to a parking firm — and had them dumped in a waterlogged horse field.
An £80,000 Range Rover, a £57,000 Mercedes plus BMWs and Audis were among dozens of flash motors parked around a giant mound of poo.
Two horses were spotted charging and rolling around near the vehicles, whose owners paid £10 a day to Parknfly Limited for a “secure” facility.
But the field, turning into a quagmire, is surrounded by only a small fence.
Police were called last week after a horse escaped and ran down the road in Stanwell, Surrey, a mile from London’s Heathrow.
The owner of one of the horses, who asked not to be named, said: “One is a bit of a beast. If they slip in the mud they could do some damage to the cars.”
He said the cars “turned up on Christmas Day”, adding: “The owners will be up in arms if they knew.”
One local Theresa Parsons, 66, said: “It’s disgusting. There’s expensive cars and this is a bad area.
“If the kids get in, God knows what will happen.”
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Security expert Graeme Dow added: “If an organisation sells on the basis of secure parking it is completely unethical.”
Parknfly director Adil Mughal, 28, said: “There’s a lot to say and to explain. I know the residents are a bit upset. I need to come back to you. Everything is terrible for me at the moment.”
The firm’s website has also been taken down.
Fliers' frenzy at car park
By Neil Syson
AIRPORT bosses sparked panic by shutting an “over-capacity” short-term car park — even though it still had free spaces.
Travellers were diverted to long-term compounds at Gatwick, causing some to nearly miss flights. One said: “Hour queue to go 220 yards.”
Another called the decision “moronic”.
Signs stated there were more than 100 available spaces at the car park.
But a Gatwick spokesman said: “We do not want to keep intermittently closing it when spaces fill up because that would be more frustrating for passengers.”