A man who helped his brother store vast quantities of illegal waste in Hertfordshire has been ordered to return thousands of pounds he made from it.

Mark Winters served a 12-month suspended prison sentence for his part in burying illegal household and business rubbish at Codicote Quarry, near Stevenage.

Investigators said the amount of illegal rubbish at the landfill site could have filled the Albert Hall 3 times over.

Now, Luton crown court told Winters he faces 2 years in jail if he doesn’t pay back profits of almost £53,000 he raked in from the scam.

For nearly 3 years, lorry after lorry carried banned and a potentially harmful cargo into the quarry. Electrical items, furniture, car parts, food packaging, wood and metal were all dumped.

Brothers Mark and Liam Winters are serving lo

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