A retired businessman has resorted to putting a display in his car window to vent his anger at a double glazing company.

David Dion, 53, launched a campaign against Anglian Windows Ltd in frustration at work it carried out at his home.

He parks his car in Worthing town centre and calls out to passers-by to read the display shouting: "Go on, read it. I was an Anglian customer."

Scores of onlookers have stopped to read his message outside the Anglian branch in Montague Street, Worthing and to ask him what it was all about.

It refers them to his court action against the company and its subsequent counter-claim and also invites potential Anglian customers to arrange to visit his home to see the windows which the company installed.

Mr Dion, of Ellis Avenue, High Salvington, Worthing, sued Anglian for negligence and breach of contract and it counter-sued him. He must pay the remaining £6,488 of his £15,000 bill less the cost of putting the work right and will receive no damages.

Instead he took matters into his own hands and is now regularly parking outside the showroom to tell people how he became embroiled in the legal row.

He said: "I'm not going to say anything defamatory about the company. I'm just allowing people to see the work done in my house rather than them just relying on the displays in the showroom before making their minds up. I'm finished with them now, so I'm not doing this for me. I just want to make sure no one else is treated the way I have been treated."

His message reads: "Thinking of getting Anglian Double Glazing or home improvements? Phone and have a look at the job they did for me."

During a court case in September, Deputy District Judge Thompson accepted some of the work was "shoddy" and acknowledged there were 44 defects in the final job.

The work included fitting doubled-glazed windows, sills, doors, fascias, soffits, barge boards and new cladding at Mr Dion's home.

Anglian offered to remedy the problems, but Mr Dion would not let its staff back in his house to carry out any work until it agreed to all of the defects listed in his surveyor's report.

A spokesman for Anglian windows, said: "It's very unfortunate because we are a large UK company and we pride ourselves in making happy customers over the 35 years we have been in business.

"When we make a mistake we endeavour to resolve it, but the customer concerned decided he wanted to take it further. It's very unfortunate it had to go to a court hearing but we did try to resolve it before that point."