A British soldier on leave after being injured in Afghanistan has been refused a room in a Surrey hotel just because he is in the army.
The BBC has reported that Corporal Tomas Stringer, 23, from Gwynedd in Wales, was visiting an injured friend near Woking when he was turned away from the Metro Hotel.
Corporal Stringer, of 13 Air Assault Support Regiment, was asked to provide a form of identification to book the room and when he presented his military pass he was told that it was management policy not to accept Armed Forces as guests.
Stringer, who injured his wrist falling out of a truck while coming under fire in Afghanistan, was forced to spend the night in his car.
He has now returned to Afghanistan but his mother, Gaynor Stringer, was so upset over the way he was treated by the hotel she wrote to MP Hywel Williams.
Mrs Stringer has also voiced her disappointment over how soldiers are treated in Britain compared to in the United States.
"We've been to America and their military get treated like heroes over there. I think it's terrible they [UK Armed Forces] can't even wear their uniform with pride."
Nobody from the Metro Hotel was available for comment.