Flytipper given a taste of his own medicine by police who tracked him down

A flytipper in Italy has been force-fed a hefty dose of his own medicine for all to see.

The 36-year-old man had dumped two large sofas in a field with no CCTV coverage on the outskirts of Bergamo, near Milan.

But detectives managed to piece together clues from the scene, eyewitness accounts and footage from cameras in the surrounding areas to trace the offender, a known criminal from the seaside resort of Rimini.

They then drove the sofas to his home in Romano di Lombardia, 25 miles away, and dumped them in his front yard.

Footage set to ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ by the Tokens shows a municipal tipper being used to drop the furniture unceremoniously onto its side, without much concern as to whether it can be reused.

A video caption reads: ‘Have you lost something? The local police will find it and bring it back to your home.’

Local police said the ‘gesture’ would be carried out against other fly-tippers as part of a ‘zero tolerance’ policy.

They added: ‘The message for the sneaky is that they must not think they can do whatever they want at the expense of the community.’

The fly-tipper – who claimed he was only leaving the sofas there ‘temporarily’ was also fined the maximum penalty of €10,000 (£8,600), according to local media.

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