A MAN who used shopping trolleys to collect rubbish from public bins before throwing it into people’s back yards has been given an ASBO after his antics caused public outrage.

Timothy Hegarty, 49, who also goes by the name of Kevin Davies, is banned from using a supermarket trolley, other than on supermarket property, and from interfering with rubbish bags and bins in Burnley town centre as part of his order.

Hegarty is a regular in the Bank Hall area of Burnley and, in court, gave his address as Albert Road.

A woman at the house yesterday said he didn’t live there and was of no fixed abode.

Burnley Council took out an interim anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) on Hegarty, with a hearing for a full ASBO due on August 15.

After the hearing, residents said Hegarty had been causing problems with rubbish in the area for several years.

One long-term Leyland Road resident said: "I have complained to the council several times about it. He goes out every night and throws rubbish into people's back yards. It's disgusting.

"He is clever about it as he usually goes out at 3am or 4am when people are asleep. I'm pleased something has been done but I'm not sure it will work and stop him.

"I think he is a bit of a hoarder. He collects all this rubbish and then anything he doesn't want, he just throws into other people's back yards.

"I've tried to talk to him about it in the past but he won't listen and told me to mind my own business."

Joan Hoyland, a Bank Hall resident said: "He is very well known in the area. Everybody has had some experience of him.

"It's awful to see it. It makes the area look dirty and it's not fair on people."

An Albert Road resident said: "I've lived here for about four years and he has been around for as long as that.

"Everybody knows him because they see him pushing the trolley around, but some of the stuff he leaves out is disgusting and it's not right when there are so many children about playing in this area."

Graham Spencer, of Leyland Road, said: "It's frustrating for people to see someone throw rubbish in to their back yard.

“I don't know how well this will work but something needs to be done."

Reedley Magistrates’ Court heard how Hegarty ‘regularly and persistently removed waste from Burnley town centre’.

Speaking after the hearing, Coun Gary Frayling, a Bank Hall ward councillor said: “Two or three people had raised this issue with me.

“I think Timothy is a bit of a hoarder and had been causing some nuisance in the area so I’m sure people will be pleased to see the council taking action.

“From what people had told me, he was walking around the Leyland Road area, especially at night, with a trolley full of rubbish and is throwing some of it in to back yards.

“It was a problem that residents were concerned about it so hopefully this will help.”