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Tesco cigarette butt drop lands smoker with £400 bill

A smoker has been landed with a £400 bill for dropping a cigarette in a supermarket car park.

Daniel Hake, 38, was seen littering the fag butt by council enforcement officers at Tesco in Honeywood Parkway, Dover.

Daniel Hake dropped the cigarette outside the Tesco Extra in Dover Pic: Google
Daniel Hake dropped the cigarette outside the Tesco Extra in Dover Pic: Google

The 38-year-old, of The Street, Preston, did not pay the £75 fine and the case was brought before Canterbury magistrates.

He did not appear in court but was found guilty in his absence on November 26.

Magistrates fined him £220 and ordered him to pay £150 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.

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