"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.
Yet more littering offenders have been before Plymouth Magistrates Court this week.
On Monday, nine defendants were found guilty in their absence and ordered to pay £454.
The court heard how all of the offenders were given fixed penalty notices by the Council’s environmental enforcement officers, who witnessed them dropping litter on the city’s streets.
Eighteen litterers must each pay £452 after hearings at Plymouth Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
Of the 18, seven of the defendants were facing charges from offences in January 2020, while the 11 others faced charges for offences in September 2019.
Leaving a load of old cardboard boxes in a back lane has cost a Plymouth woman £855.
The 32 year-old was found guilty of littering at Plymouth Magistrates Court on Tuesday. She did not attend the hearing.
Twelve more litter louts have been fined after hearings at Plymouth Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
The court heard how the offenders were all given fixed penalty notices by the Council’s environmental enforcement officers, who witnessed them dropping litter on the city’s streets.
A woman who threw litter from her vehicle has been ordered to pay a massive £752.
The 48 year-old from Hooe was found guilty in her absence at Plymouth Magistrates Court on Tuesday.