Neighbours said the garden was a health risk

He was arrested on Thursday morning by court bailiffs who have been looking for him for more than a month.

Derby City Council waged an eight-year campaign to get Graham Ellison to tidy up his garden at Fife Street in Alvaston.

The council eventually sent in its own workers to do the work.

In January Ellison was sentenced in his absence to four months in prison for failing to comply with court orders to tidy up the garden.

Since then he is thought to have been in hiding in Scotland.

But on Thursday Ellison was held by bailiffs carrying a warrant for his arrest and taken before a judge, who agreed that the original sentence should be imposed.

Neighbours had complained the garden, full of wood and building materials, was both a fire hazard and a health risk.