A fly-tipper has been fined after dumping rubbish from her Fiat Punto onto a street near Manchester city centre.
Keighley Whyte, 27, from Clayton, pleaded guilty to fly-tipping at a hearing at Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court on March 4.
Council CCTV captured a Fiat Punto being driven down New Viaduct Street, which is next to the Etihad football stadium, on June 11 2020, Manchester Evening News reports.
The car stopped, and two women got out of the car in order to dump rubbish onto the side of the road, and then drove off.
Biffa, the waste management company working on behalf of Manchester City Council, visited the site the next day and found evidence from the dumped rubbish linking back to Whyte.
Further investigation then showed that the Fiat Punto used to fly-tip the rubbish was registered to Whyte.
Whyte failed to attend an initial court hearing for the offence, with a warrant being issued leading to her arrest.
Councillor Rabnawaz Akbar, Manchester City Council's executive member for Neighbourhoods, said: "This is an environmental crime that doesn't make sense on any level.
“Not only is it an unnecessary cost to the council, and hence the taxpayer, it was an expensive way for this woman to get rid of rubbish when she could have taken it for free to a local tip.
"Once again, we want to send a message to anyone who thinks they can get away with blighting our environment, we will not tolerate fly-tipping in the city, and we will continue to bring prosecutions to court to show that this behaviour is not acceptable in our city."
Whyte was ordered to pay a total of £614 for the offence.
