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A man gave a fly-tipper instant karma after catching him in the act on CCTV – and re-dumping the rubbish on the culprit’s doorstep.
Dean Gauci, 38, was tending to a block of flats he manages in Cardiff on Friday when he noticed seven sacks filled with household waste.
Determined to find the person responsible, the Airbnb maintenance worker sifted through hours of CCTV camera footage – and caught the culprit dumping his waste at 9am on that day.
He then spoke to neighbours who lived on the street where the waste was dumped, who gave him the litterer’s identity.
Dean marched to the man’s front door and placed the rubbish on his doorstep before ringing the doorbell.
After opening the door and being told he had been caught on CCTV, the man simply said: ‘I was going to move this, sorry mate.’
Dean, who runs Stay Care Operations, said: ‘People fly-tip here all the time – this is probably the 30th or 40th time people have done it.
‘So I was so determined to find the person who did it. I could have taken that rubbish and charged the landlord to dispose of it, but I wanted to do the right thing and catch the guy.
‘Before I saw the CCTV, I even went through the bags looking for any address I could – and found Amazon boxes with the addresses peeled off them!’
Dean spoke to three neighbours to try to identify the culprit, and one knew the man.
He said: ‘It turns out he lived 10 houses up from the property! He literally lived on the same street.’