Wisbech: Dumpster diving homeless man jailed for 10 weeks

Police found Kamil Mielncizk, 31, inside Wisbech Recycling Centre on Thursday, May 11.

The team had been carrying out regular visits with Fenland District Council’s homeless outreach team, after complaints about anti-social behaviour (ASB) on an illegal encampment at the back of the centre, as well as people breaking into the premises.

The camp was empty however officers spotted an insecurity in the fence to the recycling centre, where they found Mielncizk inside rummaging through a skip.

After being found on the site numerous times and stealing contents from the centre, Mielncizk was convicted of multiple thefts in June last year, where he was made subject of a two-year Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO).

Kamil Mielncizk, who has been jailed for breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order (Image: Cambridgeshire Police)

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The order states he must engage with the Ferry Project in Wisbech to assist with his housing and not enter any recycling centre in Cambridgeshire while it is closed.

Mielncizk, of no fixed address, was jailed for 10 weeks by Huntingdon magistrates after he admitted breaching the order.

PC Justin Bielawski, from the Wisbech Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: "There has been significant effort by the council’s homeless outreach workers to support Mielncizk however he has refused to accept the help offered.

The illegal encampment behind the recycling centre in Wisbech (Image: Cambridgeshire Police)

"His behaviour has been having a significant impact on those living nearby, with lots of comings and goings from the camp, causing noise, disruption and excessive litter.

"Once he is released from prison, we will continue to monitor him, along with the outreach team, and enforce the CBO for as long as it is in place."

Anyone who sees Mielncizk breaching his CBO should report to police online or call 101.