A notorious drive-by fly-tipper has had his vehicles crushed after dumping tonnes of rubbish on Croydon’s streets.

Video footage emerged last year of George Smith, 40, tipping rubble, wood and other building waste on Croham Manor Close off Campden Road in March last year.

Magistrates ordered the confiscation of the vehicles ‘used to facilitate criminal behaviour’ this year after he was jailed for four fly-tipping offences in 2016.

This week, the two tipper trucks used by him to carry out the offences were destroyed by Croydon Council.

A third vehicle, also property of Smith, was destroyed prior to the case against him when he failed to claim it.

Councillor Stuart Collins, cabinet member for Clean Green Croydon, said: “George Smith used these trucks to dump rubbish and building waste in our streets and public spaces, with total disregard for our community.

“Fly-tippers who use their vehicles to carry out waste crimes risk losing them.

“If the council suspect a vehicle has been used in a crime, officers can seize and investigate.

“If the owner is prosecuted and found to have used their vehicle to facilitate criminal activity, they will forfeit it permanently and it can be destroyed.”

Smith, of Cowley Crescent, Waddon, is the second person to be sent to prison for fly-tipping-related offences since the council launched its Don’t Mess With Croydon campaign in 2015.

Since the beginning of the campaign, Croydon Council has crushed 21 vehicles that have been used for fly-tipping and criminal behaviour.