Serial fly-tipper tracked down and prosecuted

A fly-tipper who repeatedly dumped trolleys full of rubbish in Ilford, east London, has been ordered to pay a total of £1,019 in fines and costs and given a community order.

Carmen Vasile, 45, pleaded guilty at Barkingside Magistrates' Court in September to three counts of fly-tipping.

She had previously been given multiple warnings by enforcement officers and a legal notice telling her how to dispose of household waste. After a fixed penalty notice went unpaid, the council took legal action.

Councillor Sunny Brar, Redbridge's cabinet member for enforcement, said: "This prosecution should serve as a warning that we have zero tolerance for fly-tipping in Redbridge."

Among the waste she illegally dumped in Yoxley Approach was a shopping trolley filled with a foldable table, a plastic baby bath, a baby-changing table and bags of rubbish.

She left another trolley full of sealed black bin bags in Bentley Drive.

Several open bin bags, loose household waste and a delivery box scattered across the pavement in Bentley Drive were also traced back to Vasile by Redbridge Council's enforcement team.

Vasile was handed a year's community order, including a seven-day rehabilitation programme.

She also received a five-year criminal behaviour order, putting strict legal controls and conditions on how rubbish is stored and disposed of by anyone living at her Yoxley Drive address.

Brar said Vasile's case was "a great example of what can be done when communities work with us to bring offenders to justice.

"Information from the public and evidence from our enforcement team's investigations helped build a robust case to obtain the strongest sentence possible."

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