"If you drop litter, we will come after you."
That was the message from Councillor Sally Haydon, Cabinet member for Customer Focus and Community Safety, after eight more litter louts appeared before Plymouth Magistrates Court on Monday.
Each were ordered to pay £384 having been witnessed dropping litter by the Council’s environmental enforcement officers.
The court heard how all of the offenders were given fixed penalty notices but despite several reminders, they remained unpaid, resulting in a summons to court.
While one of the defendants attended court, the other seven were found guilty in their absence and ordered them each to pay a fine of £150, legal costs of £200 and a victim surcharge of £34.
The original fixed penalty notice was for £100.
Councillor Haydon added: "I get tired of saying it, but the message is simple, don't drop litter; don't disrespect fellow residents and the city itself just because you can't be bothered to find a bin."
Also heard at Plymouth Magistrates Court on Monday was the case of a man who had failed to pay a fixed penalty notice for failing to control his dog. He, too, was fine £150 and ordered to pay £200 in costs and victim surcharge of £34.