HE’LL be gone by the end of the week.

The former business partners of notorious Hampshire clamper Jason White say they are expecting formal confirmation he has left his post as a director by Saturday.

As revealed in the Daily Echo, Mr White has disappeared leaving his former firm, Whites Car Park Solutions, in administration with debts of more than £111,000.

But we also told how a new company, Ultimate CPS, had taken on many of the contracts run by Whites, which repeatedly hit the headlines over its treatment of elderly and vulnerable motorists, since being established in November last year.

Mr White was named as one of the directors of the new clamping firm on documents held at Companies House, alongside Graham Deacon and Richard Tufft.

But Mr Tufft told the Daily Echo last night that no-one from Ultimate CPS, being operated from an office in Southampton and a car yard near Winchester, has been in touch with Mr White for several weeks.

He said the clamper had “disappeared”

within a week of signing a deal that was supposed to merge his and Mr Deacon’s firm with Whites.

Mr Tufft said he knew Mr White had travelled to Scotland and Ireland, but the last he knew he was in Southend, Essex, and since then they have not been able to make contact with him.

But he said there is a legal agreement that Mr White would resign as director of Ultimate CPS this week.

Mr Tufft said: “As of this Saturday, he won’t be a director.

“There’s a legal document in place, and that’s been in place since day one. It’s set in stone and we’re waiting to receive the paperwork. He’s got nothing to do with it (Ultimate CPS).

“He approached us to join up with him because we could offer a better service. The idea was that we would come together.

“But within a week he disappeared, leaving us to pick up the pieces. We didn’t know he had put Whites into administration.

We were as shocked as anyone when we saw the £111,000 (debt).”

Since we revealed the demise of Whites on Saturday, and the fact administrator Jim Pretty, of Atherton Bailey in Eastleigh, has been trying to trace Mr White, several people have contacted the paper, with other suggested locations for where he is including Surrey and France.

He has failed to attend crucial meetings or provide details of his firm’s troubled finances, and Mr Pretty said he believes he is “abroad”, but “not contactable”.

Since Ultimate CPS took over the Whites’ contracts, including St Mary’s Church in Southampton, several complaints have been made about its tactics.

Readers have told the Daily Echo that warning signs are not prominent enough and the company is charging hundreds of pounds for minor offences.

The Daily Echo’s repeated attempts to contact Jason White have not been successful.