A PARKING company boss has pleaded guilty to flouting consumer protection legislation.

Alan Robert Naylor is due to appear at Southampton Crown Court.

The director of EZEPARKING LTD previously pleaded guilty to breaches of consumer protection legislation.

On two occasions, the company's staff used Eastgate Street multi-storey car park to park customers' vehicles for a total of 11 days each time.

However, according to the city council, CCTV shows the vehicles being "dangerously tailgated" out of the car park behind a vehicle owned by Mr Naylor to evade parking fees.

These fees were repaid eight months later.

The council says that customers were not told that their vehicles would be kept in a public council car park.

Or, they would be removed from the car park in a way that risked damage.

Meanwhile, the company’s website claimed that customers vehicles would be "safe and well protected" whilst in its care.

Naylor, of Brownwich Lane in Fareham, is due to be sentenced next Monday.