A car park owned by Liverpool property developer Elliot Lawless has been blighted by vandals and drug users.
A local man who recently used Beetham Plaza car park sent in the photographs to highlight the conditions. The worker claims to have witnessed two men with their trousers down inject themselves with drugs inside the car park.
The photographs showed a car that had been broken into, broken glass on the floor and a ceiling in disrepair. The man, who asked not be named, said: "I was shocked to see two guys with their pants down injecting drugs. I spoke to a couple who had been visiting Liverpool and came to find their had been broken into.
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"They were told that the CCTV does not work. I won't be parking there again."
Mr Lawless said that he was now considering introducing a manned operation at the city centre car park due to recent issues with anti-social behaviour, including drug taking.
He said: “We invested substantially with our technology provider in automated systems and extensive CCTV infrastructure but in recent weeks we’ve found this has lacked a sufficient deterrent effect.
“We are exploring introducing a manned operation now.
“We used to operate this way and did not experience the level of anti-social behaviour that we have seen of late, but I would hope that by having enhanced physical security in place, in addition to the automated systems we have on site already, it will mitigate the problems we have seen at these premises lately.”
Last year a local man sent in photographs which highlighted conditions inside the car park.
Some of the pictures revealed water dripping down from walls, pools of water on the floor and metallic objects hanging down dangerously low.
A spokesman for the Elliot Group said that the company would begin refurbishment work in the car park once recladding work was completed to the Beetham Plaza building.
Mr Lawless acquired a lease to the site on July 1 2019 which stipulated that he pay rent worth £95,000 per year to the council for the rights to around 110 spaces in the underground car park.
In 2020 the ECHO revealed how Mr Lawless used the name of a well known politician while negotiation with the council with regards to the lease.
The email which was sent from Mr Lawless to a solicitor in June 2019 reads: "XXX and I want this completed no later than close of play on Wednesday so a quick turnaround would be very much appreciated."
Mr Lawless, from Liverpool, was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, bribery and corruption in December 2019. Mr Lawless has not been charged with any offences and has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
