A man returned seven bags of dumped rubbish to a fly-tipper’s doorstep after sifting through CCTV. <\/p>\n
Dean Gauci had grown angry that the block of flats he manages in Cardiff was being repeatedly targeted by waste offenders. <\/p>\n
Using amateur detective skills, he looked through hours of CCTV recordings before finding the moment the rubbish was left – 09:00 BST on 12 June.<\/p>\n
By speaking to neighbours and showing them the footage, he was able to quickly establish the identity of the offender, and the fact that he lived close by. <\/p>\n
Dean, 38, carried the sacks – which were filled with household waste – to the nearby property and piled them outside before ringing the doorbell. <\/p>\n
The culprit answered and was told he had been caught red-handed on CCTV, before responding with “I was going to move this, sorry mate”, according to Dean. <\/p>\n
As an Airbnb maintenance worker in Wales’ capital, the incident had been the final straw for Dean, after dealing with dozens of cases over the past year. <\/p>\n
“People fly-tip here all the time – this is probably the 30th or 40th time people have done it,” he added. <\/p>\n
Because of this, he was determined to track down the person who had left the waste on this occasion.<\/p>\n
He said: “I could have taken that rubbish and charged the landlord [of the flats] to dispose of it, but I wanted to do the right thing and catch them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man returned seven bags of dumped rubbish to a fly-tipper’s doorstep after sifting through CCTV. Dean Gauci…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}