A young BMW driver whose tyres have been slashed three times in as many weeks on the same Hounslow street believes jealousy could be the motive.

Bahadur Lal parks in Brambles Close, Osterley, each day before getting the train from Syon Lane station towards Canary Wharf, where he works as an accountant.

Three times this year he has returned to find one tyre of his blue BMW 1 Series slashed - on January 19 and 27, and on Febuary 2.

The 20-year-old, of Heston, says it is a public road and other drivers park there before catching the train, yet his is apparently the only vehicle to have been targeted.

Brambles Close, near Syon Lane train station, where the vandalism took place

"The only motives I can think of are jealousy, because I'm young and drive a nice car, or racism, because I'm visibly a Sikh," he told getwestlondon.

"People maybe think I'm so young I don't deserve a nice car, but I work very hard to pay for the car.

"It's a real stab in the heart to return after a 12-hour shift to find your tyres have been slashed again."

Mr Lal said he had reported the incidents to police, who told him there was little they could do as the street was not covered by CCTV and no one they spoke to had witnessed the tyres being slashed.

He said each tyre costs about £250 to replace and nobody had said anything to him or left a message on his car about him parking in their street which might explain the vandalism.