A man has been sentenced to nine months in prison for illegally depositing and storing 367 tonnes of waste at two sites near residential areas.
Thomas Coulter, 46, of Alliance Court in Belfast had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawfully depositing waste and one of keeping unlawful waste.
He admitted collecting waste from homes and businesses before depositing it at two unlicensed sites on the Crumlin Road during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
The waste was later removed by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) at public expense.
The dumping sparked protests from residents in 2020, with locals saying rats and flies had become so bad that some people had left their homes.