GRIMSBY MAN £640 POORER AFTER ILLICIT DUMPING OF RUBBISH AT TOWN RECYCLING BANK

 

CCTV captured this image of the bags dumped at a Grimsby recycling bank

A GRIMSBY man who illegally dumped bags of rubbish at a town recycling site has been hit in the pocket to the tune of £640.

According to North East Lincolnshire Council, cameras  twice captured footage of 65-year-old Muslim Ugurlu when he drove to Garibaldi Street car park and dumped his rubbish next to the recycling bins.

In the  footage, Ugurlu drives up to the bins, takes the bags from the back of his car, then dumps them on the ground next to the bins.

He was filmed fly-tipping bags of rubbish from his car boot on two dates in May 2019. 

A passenger helped him during the first visit but he was alone on the second.

Environmental enforcement officers noted Ugurlu’s car registration in  order to trace him. 

They interviewed him on January 17 last year and served him with a £400 fixed penalty notice on February 24 that year.

He did not pay the penalty and, as a result, was taken to court. 

The defendant, of Macaulay Street, Grimsby, pleaded guilty to two fly-tipping offences when he appeared before magistrates on January 22.

He was fined £400 and ordered to pay £200 costs and a £40 victim surcharge.

The recycling banks in Garibaldi Street were removed last year as part of a borough-wide review of the bring-to sites.

It is  not known what precisely was in the dumped bags.