Truck that was used for fly-tipping is seized and crushed

A VEHICLE used to dump rubbish in Wolverhampton has been destroyed and its owner slapped with a bill totalling almost £5,000.

- ISABELLE BATES

The truck dumping rubbish in Millfields Road, Ettingshall

It comes after security cameras captured a fly-tipping incident on land off Millfields Road, Ettingshall, in May last year.

The driver of a Ford Transit flatbed van dumped a large amount of waste including furniture, bagged waste and carpet, with the help of another motorist.

Environmental crime officers contacted the DVLA and records showed that at the time of the incident, the truck was registered to Colin Fullard, of Glyn Avenue in Bilston.

Following several attempts to seize the vehicle, council officers and police met Fullard at his property, where they were told the van was elsewhere.