PROSECUTIONS AND PENALTIES
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• Offences committed under section 33 of the Environment Protection Act can result in a fine of up to £20,000 and/or three months in prison if sentenced at a magistrates court, or an unlimited fine and/or a prison sentence at a crown court.
• Since April, Lewisham Council has prosecuted 20 fly-tippers, most of whom received fines of £1,000 or less. However, London Rock of West Drayton was fined £2,500 with £2,067 costs for giving waste to an unlicensed carrier who dumped it between two primary schools. And Redline Waste of west London was fined £3,100 plus £2,300 costs for dumping 80 bags of rubbish in Lewisham.
Examples of prosecutions brought by the Environment Agency from elsewhere in the country.
• In January Nicholas Walsh from Abercynon, trading as NSW Demolition, was fined £2,200 with £1,000 costs by Aberdare magistrates.
• In September Christopher John Hughes pleaded guilty before Newcastle-under-Lyme magistrates to three charges of allowing an unauthorised person to remove industrial waste from his premises and tip it illegally on land at Middleport, Burslem. He was fined £1,500 with £583 costs.
• In July Somerset skip operator Cheddar Skips was ordered to pay £3,350 in fines and costs by Frame magistrates after pleading guilty to two offences of illegally depositing waste.
• In June Mark John Gibson of M&M Rubbish Removals was jailed for two months for fly-tipping in the Bridgend area.
• In January Bryan Burgess was fined £500 with £1,144 costs for allowing two men to remove industrial waste from his premises and tipping it illegally in Ravensdale, Tunstall.