Gatwick Airport parking scam exposed
22.11.09
Trading standards officers exposed a Gatwick Airport parking scam, the Horley Life reports. West Sussex County Council Trading Standards took action after receiving complaints about a company that offered secure airport parking, then parked cars on the street with no security at all.
A company called 'Gatwick Secure Parking' operated a website offering: ‘Secure parking, six foot high fencing, and lockable gates.’ However, after receiving consumer complaints, trading standards officers wrote to the website operator, Resat Gundogdu, a restaurant owner whose premises are in Peterhouse Parade, Pound Hill, Crawley, about the claims being made on the website.
When the officers saw the claims were still being made, they made a ‘test purchase’. Over three days in January, the car they booked in remained in the same position with the same mileage reading outside the general parking area at Peterhouse Parade.
At Crawley Magistrates Court on November 16, Mr Gundogdu was sentenced to 140 hours community service after pleading guilty to fraud. He was also ordered to pay costs of £836.
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