A Hull couple who thought they were doing good by taking rubbish from outside an empty home to be recycled found themselves in court.
Richard Small and his wife Lynne picked up a pair of boots, a hose pipe, a shoelace and a plant pot from a rotting pile of waste left in an abandoned house garden.
They took it round the corner to their home on 16th Avenue in West Hull but were shocked when a police car and van turned up with four officers to arrest them.
They were handcuffed and taken to Priory Road Police station where they were fingerprinted, put in cells, charged with theft by finding and left with the thought that they could be sent to jail.
But five months later their case was thrown out of Hull Crown Court with a judge awarding them 10 pounds compensation.
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