A man desperate for the toilet was trapped in a lift for more than two hours.

The unlucky gentleman, aged in his 20s, was stuck in the lift in the NCP car park near the Queensway in Crawley yesterday evening.

Eventually the fire brigade was called and he was rescued and was able to go to the toilet.

A Crawley firefighter said: “He was in some distress. He really needed the toilet and we felt quite sorry for him.

“We asked him why he didn’t use his mobile to call us and he said ‘I dunno’.”