Author: billowsaxbebillowsaxbe
Date: Sep 4, 2008 11:58
From Times Online
September 4, 2008
Soldier forced to sleep in car after hotel refuses him a room
The Metro Hotel in Woking, which was under fire today
Hannah Fletcher
A hotel that refused a wounded soldier a room, forcing him to spend
the night in his car, was backed into a āgrovellingā apology today
after receiving a barrage of abusive phone calls.
Metro Hotel, in Woking, Surrey, had to call in the police as their
lines were flooded with angry, abusive and threatening calls from
members of the public.
The attack on the switchboards came after it emerged that Corporal
Tomos Stringer, 24, had been told by hotel staff that it was company
policy not to accept members of the Armed Forces as guests.
A soldier since the age of 16 and veteran of multiple tours in
Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan, Cpl Stringer had travelled to
Surrey to help with funeral preparations for a friend killed in
action.
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