A Margate man has been has been fined £100 and ordered to pay compensation costs, after pleading guilty to dumping rubbish.
Stephen Lynch (51) from Grosvenor Place was hired by a landlord to empty one of his properties in Fort Crescent in December 2009. The landlord said that Mr. Lynch told him that he had a friend who was a registered waste carrier. The two men agreed that the flat would be cleared and secured for £85.
At around 8.30pm on the evening of 3 December 2009, a CCTV operator saw a group of men carrying rubbish from the property in Fort Crescent into Trinity Square, where it was dumped on the pavement. This continued for 30 minutes. The only person positively identified from the CCTV footage was Mr. Lynch.
Mr. Lynch was prosecuted by the council for dumping controlled waste with no environmental permit. He was fined £100 and was ordered to pay the council’s legal costs of £180.13, a contribution to the clear-up costs of £148.40 and a £15 victim surcharge.
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