Courtenay Meller has been made to pay £415 for dropping a cigarette (Image: Thames Valley Police)
A woman has been made to pay up more than £400 after she was caught dropping a cigarette butt in a Bucks town centre
Courtenay Meller, aged 25, of Hambleton Grove in Emerson Valley, has been fined £220 and ordered to pay a further £195 in costs.
At a hearing at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court on September 9, Meller was charged with throwing down or leaving litter in central Milton Keynes, outside The Point.
The court heard how on January 5, Meller dropped a cigarette butt on the ground and failed to pick it back up again.
After Bucks Council took Meller to court, she was found guilty at the hearing and made to pay a fine and costs totalling £415.
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