Up in flames: £500,000-worth of supercars torched by 'jealous rivals'

A millionaire teen is blaming jealous rivals after losing four of his supercars, worth more than £500,000, to two separate arson attacks in just one week.

Aleem Iqbal, 19, who runs a luxury car hire firm with his father, leased out a new £340,000 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster last Friday.

Hours later it was set on fire outside a house in Luton, Bedfordshire, with the attack caught on CCTV.

The footage shows three hooded men pulling up to the house around 1am in a Mercedes 4x4, and dousing the Lamborghini in petrol.

Yesterday, three more of his luxury cars, worth £200,000, were destroyed in a second attack close to his Platinum Executive Travel firm in Yardley, Birmingham.

Two Audi R8 Spyder supercars and a Bentley Flying Spur were torched at around 12.20am - and the attack was again caught on CCTV.

The clip shows two people walking up to the three cars before they were apparently set alight.

Aleem, who dubs himself ‘Lord Aleem’ on Twitter and Facebook, said: ‘I'm not really in a great state of mind at the moment - I've had half a million pounds worth of cars destroyed in the last few days.

‘I'm not sure if it’s an attack on my family, because they would have come directly after me or my family if that was the case.

‘However, I do believe it could be a vile act of jealously towards my business or it could just be mindless vandals on an arson spree.

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‘Either way, one thing is for sure they will be caught and when they do I suggest you sit back and enjoy the show because they will be going down for a long time.’

After the first attack in Luton, Aleem said: ‘Fortunately the driver was in the house at the time but this could have endangered lives, there could have been dead bodies.

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‘These arsonists really don’t know what they could have caused.

‘When I was told about what happened I felt the ground beneath me move.

‘At the time there were a number of valuable cars outside but it seems they went for the Lamborghini as it was most expensive.’

West Midlands Police said: ‘An investigation is underway into a suspected arson attack at the Holiday Inn Express Car Park on Coventry Road.

‘The three vehicles were well alight when officers arrived and are estimated to be worth more than £200,000.

‘Officers have recovered CCTV that shows two offenders setting the vehicles alight at around 12.20am.

‘We would urge anyone who saw anybody acting suspiciously late on Wednesday or in the early hours of Thursday morning to contact the investigation team in Stechford.’

Aleem's father Saleem, 43, owns Platinum Executive Travel which leases Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari and Bentley cars.

The three supercars in Thursday's attack were parked in a hotel car park from where the family are building a new showroom.

West Midlands Police are asking for information on 101, or via Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.