Odaily News Halfina Eddy-Evans, the ex-girlfriend of James Howells, an IT engineer in Newport, Wales, recently revealed that she had discarded a hard drive containing 8,000 BTC at the request of Howells in 2013. Eddy-Evans explained her role in the incident, saying: "He asked me to throw away unwanted things, including hard drives. It's not my fault that I threw it away." The price of BTC was less than $1 when the hard drive was discarded, and now these BTC are worth more than $716 million. (Daily Mail) Earlier news, James Howells was suing the Newport Municipal Council in the UK for damages of 495 million pounds (about 647 million US dollars) for accidentally discarding a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins. Howells tried many times to retrieve the hard drive from the local landfill, but was obstructed by the municipal council, which repeatedly rejected his request to dig the site. In 2013, he accidentally threw away the hard drive containing bitcoins during a household cleanup, and now these bitcoins are worth nearly 500 million pounds.