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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Mother fined £700 for putting rubbish out on wrong day


Mother fined £700 for putting rubbish out on wrong day

Victoria Clarke, 24, left bin bags outside her gate so her four-year-old daughter had more room to play in the family back yard .

But litter patrols spotted the rubbish on the pavement and Miss Clarke was taken to magistrates' court for the offence of "the advancement of waste."

She was fined £350 with £350.12 costs and ordered to pay a £15 victim surcharge under the terms of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The maximum fine is £1,000
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Outside my front gate is a black recycling box and a black bin liner full of recyclables which have been there for almost 2 weeks. Reason? The council collectors failed to do their job and collect it on the designated day. Should they now also be fined £700?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is all about the government in partnership with local councils and the police in a bid to make criminals of ordinary people so that they have an excuse to introduce draconian nazi-ist regulations to put more money into their own back pockets by way of fines. If this had happened to me I would take the stance of ignoring the summons so that the police got involved and let it blow up into a real media case.

Fuck the councils and all whot sail in them.

Anonymous said...

That having been said, I wouldn't mind helping her put some rubbish in her bins..........

Anonymous said...

jailhouselawyer,

Utterly despicable ... roll on the next Election.