A fly-tipper donned a bizarre disguise at court where he arrived wearing a massive traffic cone.
Luke Edwards, 33, was one of five men summoned to Winchester Crown Court on Monday for using a public road as their "own private dumping ground."
In an attempt to presumably dodge having their faces plastered over newspaper pages, Edwards and fellow crook Jason Castle, 28, definitely gave a photographer an unusual set of images.
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With a cone completely covering Edwards' face it is a wonder he made it to the court entrance given his apparent lack of vision. Masked up Castle had no such issue, though, as he cut eye sockets into his stretched out blue face coverings.
Jokes piled in on popular Facebook page Angry People in Local Newspapers.
One person commented "Cone you believe it!?! I think he should check the details of his conetract…"
"Cone-an the barbarian," another quipped.
A third questioned the Edwards' thinking behind his stunt, they wrote: "He wore a traffic cone for privacy. But because he's worn a traffic cone to court, the papers printed the photo of him with a traffic cone on his head with his name underneath it.
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"So now, not only do people know who he is, they also know he wore a traffic cone to court. Wonder how that's worked out for him"
The comical-looking pair were joined by Michael Whittaker, 52, Daniel Whittaker, 34, and Shane Griggs, 37, who together dumped green waste and burnt a fridge on an access road leading to Lode Hill Caravan Site near Downton, Wilts.
Swindon Advertiser reports all five of them pleaded guilty to one count each of depositing controlled waste. Whittaker, Griggs and Castle fly-tipped green waste and scrap metal, while the other two burnt rubbish.
The group were hit with hefty fines for their costly actions between August and September 2017 which were caught on covert cameras set up by Wiltshire Council.
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Syan Ventom, prosecuting, said setting a fridge alight released into the area a "cocktail of dangerous gasses".
Judge Jane Miller told the men in court that their actions were "deeply antisocial" and were a "blight on the countryside".
She continued: "All of these offences were deliberate. Flames were still burning [from the fridge] two hours later.
"You all treated this lane as your own private dumping ground."
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