A TRAIL of waste 40 metres long was dumped on farmland in Stanford-le- Hope in yet another large-scale fly-tipping incident in Thurrock.

Farmer Robert Lyon, 55, awoke yesterday morning to find the mountain of rubbish, which included household and building materials, dumped on his land off Walton’s Hall Road.

It comes just days after Justice Secretary Chris Grayling branded a 1,000- metre trail of rubbish a few miles away in Purfleet “absolutely shocking”.

The amount of waste on the Stanford site amounted to seven lorries worth. Mr Lyon said whoever was responsible cut through three thick metal chains to get on to his land Mr Lyon added he now has to organise a firm to clear the waste, with the costs being “quite considerable”.

He said: “This is organised crime. We’ve never had this before.

“It’s going to cost a lot of money for us to clear up.

These kinds of things just get worse and worse.

“Quite often we get a truck leaving a load of bushes, but this is totally different. It’s household and building waste. The clean-up cost is going to be quite considerable.”

Mr Lyon added items among the waste came from Walthamstow, in East London.

Items found on the site in Purfleet were similar, with some rubbish also coming from East London.

The site in Purfleet, known as Cory Wharf, has been occupied by travellers on and off since July. It’s not known yet if the two incidents are related.

Mr Lyon said: “We know these lorries were in the area at 11.06pm. If someone saw a lorry driving down Butts Lane around that time and possibly saw a name on it, we’d love to know so we can get something done.

“We had a National Farmers’ Union meeting last week and one of the main concerns we had was fly tipping.”

A police spokesman confirmed they attended the incident and that it had been handed over to the Environment Agency.

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