Holidaymakers returned home to find their cars dumped hundreds of miles away in a cowboy car park.
The car park in Styal, Cheshire, was shut down by police following a crackdown on rogue airport meet and greet car parking firms near Manchester Airport. It came after an increase in the number of holidaymakers reporting issues relating to car parks near the airport including car thefts and criminal damage.
Drivers also reported returning home from holiday to find their cars had been driven hundreds, even thousands, of miles away while they had been on holiday. Cheshire Police said many of the complaints related to a makeshift car park which had been set up in the grounds of a former country house at Lode Hill in Styal.
