18 - Flytippers face the courts

 

At Dudley Magistrates court yesterday (Thurs) Dudley Council successfully prosecuted three flytippers.

 

Andrew Lloyd, aged 23, of Bromley Lane, Kingswinford, was fined £500 and ordered to pay £250 costs after pleading guilty to illegally depositing waste.

 

Waste enforcement officers found the business waste, which was largely correspondence, on an industrial estate in Meeting Lane, Brierley Hill, in June last year. It was traced back to Lloyd who had moved it on behalf of his father.

 

His father, Stephen Lloyd, aged 57, a director of Plumber’s Mate in Market Place, Wednesbury, was prosecuted under Section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 for failing to dispose of his waste correctly.

 

He pleaded guilty and was fined £250 and ordered to pay £245.

 

Also before the court was Wayne Duffus, aged 23, who, in September last year was spotted by a resident throwing about 20 tyres from a vehicle at a local beauty spot in Mears Coppice, Quarry Bank. Enforcement officers traced the vehicle to Duffus, who at the time was living at 90 Leabank Road, Netherton.

 

After failing to turn up for an earlier hearing Duffus was arrested on April 16 and appeared before the court yesterday. He pleaded guilty to three charges.

Two related to illegally depositing waste on unlicensed land and the third was depositing waste on land in the open air.

 

The district judge accepted Duffus had spent nearly 48 hours in custody and handed him a two-year conditional discharge, ordered him to pay £200 towards legal costs and £345 compensation to the council.

 

 

“Flytipping blots the landscape, spoiling the environment for everyone and it will not be tolerated in the borough. We take all reports extremely seriously and follow up all incidents of flytipping.

 

“These three prosecutions send out a clear message that we will not hesitate to prosecute offenders through the courts.”