A car dealer in Luton has called for more police patrols, after vandals attacked his vehicles by throwing chemicals over them.

Anwar-Ul-Haq Mirza, of Jarral Motors in Arundel Road, was horrified to find 10 of his cars had damage to the paintwork.

He said: "I'm very upset, I don't know what to do. Ten cars is half of my business. The chemicals took the paint off the cars and now they are in a very bad condition."

It is not the first time that Mr Mirza has been targeted by criminals.

Only two weeks ago a caravan on the garage site was broken into and in January thieves broke into one of the vehicles and stole the radiator.

Last month Selbourne Motors - a garage workshop across the road - was torched in a suspected arson attack.

Now Mr Mirza is calling for police to monitor the area more closely.

He said: "It's an industrial area, so after six o'clock people close up their business and go home and that's when people do the crime. I think the police need to be doing more patrols and put CCTV systems around to monitor at night-times."

Beds Police said that the area previously had extra officers patrolling, but did not have the resources to monitor every area all the time.

If you have any information about the Jarral Motors attack, call Beds Police on 01582 401212.

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