A driver been caught on CCTV dumping three tonnes of building waste – without even stopping their truck.

The culprit, described by Croydon Council as the borough’s “number one target fly-tipping offender,” ditched heaps of rubble, plaster and wood from the back of a white Ford Transit tipper truck last month.

A resident of Croham Manor Close caught the fly-tip on their CCTV off Croham Road at 1.55pm on March 15.

Croydon Council environmental enforcement officers seized the van, with the licence plate X597 AAF, in Addiscombe on Thursday but the driver has not yet been found.

Officers believe the unregistered van may have been used for fly-tipping elsewhere in the borough, including Addiscombe, Norbury and Thornton Heath.

The van was half-full with waste when it was seized and is being examined as evidence.

Councillor Stuart Collins, the council's cabinet member for Clean and Green Croydon, said: "Fly-tipping costs thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money to clear up and it blights our borough, so I urge anyone with information about the van's driver to contact our officers to help them prosecute this particularly shameless criminal."

To report fly-tipping call 020 8604 7000 or email flytip@croydon.gov.uk