A MAN has been left with a bill of nearly £1,300 after being caught on CCTV dumping industrial cabling and piping.
Ben Hunter, 23, from Ferryhill in County Durham, pleaded guilty to flytipping at Peterlee Magistrates’ Court on Friday, December 4.
Hunter, of Aidans Walk, was caught after a neighbourhood warden from Durham County Council spotted a large amount of industrial cabling and piping dumped in a lay-by on Mainsforth Road in Bishop Middleham while reviewing CCTV footage.
Magistrates heard that the isolated spot has become regularly used for flytipping.
Footage showed a man at the back of a vehicle, which was identified as belonging to a local utilities firm.
Management at the firm identified the man as Ben Hunter who admitted illegally dumping the waste in a later interview.
Magistrates fined him £667 and ordered him to pay a £180 court charge, a £67 victim surcharge and £374.12 costs.
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