A millionaire has said he uses central London’s double yellow-lined roads as ‘VIP parking spots’ – racking up more than 100 fines in the past year.
Luke Desmaris, 27, said he earned more than £100,000 a month through stock market trading and preferred to ‘save time’ than find a legitimate spot.
Online videos show him walking from Harrods and a hotel towards his £90,000 BMW M4 with yellow fixed penalty notices on his windscreen.
A voiceover says: ‘Broke people see a fine but I see VIP parking.’ The sixth-form dropout from Chelmsford, Essex, started trading seven years ago after delivery driving, retail jobs and working in the building trade.
He said parking in London ‘can be a nightmare’, adding: ‘If I can save my time by doing that, then I will.