FLY-TIPPERS have been fined by magistrates in a spate of council prosecutions.

Defendants from across the borough were successfully summonsed by Bolton Council to Bolton Magistrates Court to answer charges under the Environmental Protection Act.

Bolton Council’s executive cabinet member for environmental services, Cllr Nick Peel, said afterwards: "We are determined to crack down on fly-tipping, which causes all sorts of problems for residents, from attracting pests to becoming a fire risk.

"The waste also costs local taxpayers for the council to remove it.

"We hope that picking up other people’s waste will demonstrate the act as a deterrent to those thinking of leaving their waste in the back streets in future."

Serial flytipping sisters Iveta Lakatosova, aged 28, and Monika Lakatosova, aged 36, live together in Great Holme, Great Lever, and each received an eight-week community order with an electronically-monitored 7pm-to-7am curfew, an £85 victim surcharge and £377 court costs.

The pair admitted four identical counts of unauthorised waste disposal — on or before April 27, on or before June 22 and twice on or before May 10.

On his first visit a council enforcement officer found a dumped patterned blue sofa and on the second occasion the settee had had loose clothing, a plastic washing basket, a box of shoes and a two filling cabinet drawers thrown on it.

The officer discovered a second pile comprising three bags for life containing toys and clothing, a small suitcase containing domestic waste and documentation and an Asda carrier bag containing documentation that led the authority.

Another defendant was Lutir Bihari, fined £80 after leaving carrier bags containing cardboard and household waste in the back street behind his Bradford Road, Great Lever, home on April 20.

The 32-year-old was convicted of littering and besides the fine must pay £155 court costs and a £30 victim surcharge.

Aneta Calota, aged 41, who dumped an item of wooden furniture in the street behind her home on May 9, was fined £80 for littering.

The Woodfield Street, Bolton, resident owes was told to pay court costs of £184 and a £30 victim surcharge.

Discarding six rubbish bags of domestic waste outside the back of his house cost Simon Crompton, aged 39, of Stone Street, Tonge Moor, a £75 fine, a £20 victim surcharge and court costs of £273 after he was convicted of the February 19 littering.

Monika Kotlarova, aged 25, of Melville Street, Great Lever, left a settee in the back street behind her house on or before May 10.

She was found guilty of littering and fined £80 and ordered to pay a victim surcharge and court costs of £30 and £170 respectively.

Rafael Marek, of Longfellow Road, Daubhill, was fined £160 and ordered to pay court costs of £340 and a victim surcharge of £30 after twice being caught flytipping behind his own home.

The 35-year-old dumped three bags of domestic waste dumped on or before May 11 and seven bin bags of trash on or before July 20 and two offences of littering were proved.

Laslo Vorus, aged 19, of Church Avenue, Deane, deposited a single bag of household waste outside a neighbour's house on or before May 18.

Vorus was convicted of littering and was fined £80 and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £30 and court costs of £179.