11:00am Thursday 11th March 2010
By Carl Brown
THE owner of a company fined £1,500 for dumping rubbish continues to protest his innocence.
CCTV cameras captured a white van dumping rubbish in Grange Road late at night on October 18.
The council said the van was later found in Station Road and traced to Fieldstone Commerce Ltd.
Magistrates found the company guilty of unlawful waste disposal and ordered it to pay £1,000 costs and a fine of £1,500.
But the owner of the cornershop business Ibrahim Altun, 25, continues to insist his company was not behind the flytipping.
This is despite the fact he owns a white van of a similar make and model carrying a similar registration number to that caught on film and the presence of a receipt from his business found in the waste.
Mr Altun said: “Why would I dump waste? And why would I dump it so close to where my business is?
“I run a legitimate business.
“I am absolutely gutted, I am only a young businessman and I will struggle to pay the money.”
Cllr Afzal Akram, council cabinet member for enforcement, said he was “delighted” with the court's decision.
He said: “Fly-tipping is a disgusting crime which blights our community and costs us all hundreds of thousands of pounds to clear up each year.
“This prosecution will send out a strong message that this sort of behaviour will not be tolerated in Waltham Forest and act as a warning to others who feel it is acceptable to uses our streets as a dumping ground." Click here to follow the Waltham Forest Guardian on Twitter
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