Three fly-tippers have been ordered to pay back more than £230,000 after illegally dumping HUNDREDS of tonnes of waste in a "highly-organised" operation.

William Jones, 39, Sean Collard, 53, and Glenn Harper, 33, were caught on CCTV caught dumping a mixture of household waste, wood and textiles from a lorry with a false number plates.

Investigators from the Environment Agency first discovered the men had broken into a yard in Choats Road, Barking, Essex in October 2012.

The shocking footage showed the waste spilling onto the ground due to the amount of waste which was packed into the lorry.

Jones, of Stratford, London, Harper, of Wickford, Essex, and Collard, of Rainham, Essex, struck again the following month at a printing works in Thurrock, Essex.