A man has been landed with a bill of more than £1,400 after waste from his home was found fly-tipped on a country lane.
Preston Hamilton, from County Durham, appeared at Peterlee Magistrates' Court following a prosecution by Durham County Council. The court heard that in October last year, the council's neighbourhood wardens were called to a fly-tip on a country lane between High Grange and Hunwick.
After finding evidence linking the waste to Hamilton's address, a warden called at his home and left a calling card when nobody answered the door. The 31-year-old, of Richardson Court in Willington, then contacted the warden by telephone and said he accepted that the waste had come from his address, but he couldn't remember who had taken it away for him.
