I binned my boyfriend’s £569m Bitcoin fortune by mistake and now it’s lost in a huge landfill – it’s not my fault

A WOMAN who binned her boyfriend's £569million Bitcoin luck by mistake says it's present mislaid successful a immense landfill - but it's not her fault.

Welshman James Howells, 39, claims helium "mined" the 8,000 coins backmost successful 2009, storing them connected a hard drive.

The Bitcoin would present beryllium worthy much than fractional a cardinal pounds, but the thrust is thought to beryllium mislaid successful a Newport Council tip.

His ex-girlfriend Halfina Eddy-Evans has present admitted taking the thrust to the extremity - but said James asked her to.

He is present warring for the close to hunt the immense smelly extremity successful a hopeless bid to find the drive.

Halfina told the Mail: "I anticipation helium finds it - not that I privation a penny of his money, but it volition unopen him up."

Mum-of-two Halfina said James had enactment the thrust successful a achromatic binbag afloat of rubbish.

She claimed helium asked her to instrumentality the binbag to the tip, and she dumped it without realising the thrust was inside.

Halfina said: "I'd emotion thing much than him to find it. I'm sick and bushed of proceeding astir it."

James has vowed to instrumentality Newport Council to tribunal for the close to excavation up the tip.

He said if helium finds the thrust helium volition splash 10 per cent of the £569million connected Newport - turning it into the "Dubai of the UK".

Back successful 2009, aboriginal crypto enthusiast James picked up 8,000 Bitcoin for a tiny fraction of their worth today.

But the dependable of his laptop instrumentality moving portion helium mined the Bitcoin annoyed Halfina, who told him to stop.

He past knocked a solid of lemonade implicit the laptop, which ne'er worked decently again.

James sold astir of the parts and enactment the thrust successful a junk drawer, wherever helium forgot astir it for 3 years,

Eventually helium cleared retired the drawer into the binbag which Halfina took to the tip.

She said: "It looks similar he's blaming me, but I don't deliberation helium truly is, not that we are adjacent talking now."

There are much than 1.4million tonnes of discarded to comb done astatine the landfill.

But James said helium has narrowed down the hard thrust to an country of 100,000 tonnes.

Newport Council said letting James hunt the extremity would wounded the environment and interruption greenish rules.

Last period James said helium was suing the assembly for conscionable implicit £495million successful damages for "withholding my property".

A justice is acceptable to regularisation connected the lawsuit connected December 3 aft the assembly applied to person it thrown out.

Newport City Council said: "We person been contacted aggregate times since 2013 astir the anticipation of retrieving a portion of IT hardware said to beryllium successful our landfill site.

"The assembly has told Mr Howells aggregate times that excavation is not imaginable nether our biology permit.

"Work of that quality would person a immense antagonistic biology interaction connected the surrounding area.

"The assembly is the lone assemblage authorised to transportation retired operations connected the site.

"Mr Howells's assertion has nary merit, and the assembly is vigorously resisting it."