A FLY-TIPPER has been fined and another ordered to do community service after rubbish was found dumped on council owned land.
At a hearing on March 16 at Chelmsford Crown Court, Kevin Sharpington, 27, of Princes Close in North Weald was prosecuted after building waste found dumped on land in St Mary’s Way in Chigwell was traced back to him.
Council officers found evidence linking the waste to an address in Abridge, where the occupier said that Mr Sharpington had borrowed his van and said he would dump the rubbish in a tip.
Mr Sharpington called police to confess to the crime but failed to an attend an earlier court hearing and was arrested at his mother’s house in North Weald and taken to Chelmsford Magistrates Court, where he pleaded guilty to fly-tipping.
He was ordered to pay £100 towards Epping Forest District Council’s prosecution costs and clear up costs of £120.
On February 29, Dean Allen, 40, of Chigwell Road in Woodford Green was prosecuted, after the manager of the Barnados charity shop in The Broadway in Debden asked him to take some glass and window frames to a tip and Mr Allen instead dumped them on land round the back of the shop.
Mr Allen was identified after driving past the shop manager as he inspected the site with police.
He was also prosecuted by Redbridge and Waltham Forest councils for fly-tipping offences, pleaded guilty to all offences, and was sentenced to carry out 40 hours of unpaid work, and the van he used to illegally dump the waste was seized.
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