'Wrong to pick on me!' COURT: Fly-tip row dad hits back.Byline: Martin Bagot A BUILDER fined pounds 1,000 for fly-tipping has accused the council of "persecuting the little man" for what he says was a misunderstanding. David Ogilvie David Ogilvie is the name of:
The court heard he was traced easily because his name and address was on the side of the boxes he discarded dis·card v. dis·card·ed, dis·card·ing, dis·cards v.tr. 1. To throw away; reject. 2. a. To throw out (a playing card) from one's hand. b. . Now the 39-year-old has hit back at council officials and claimed it was all a misunderstanding. He said he was told by a friend who lived in the street that rubbish left near the garages was taken by refuse collectors every fortnight fort·night n. A period of 14 days; two weeks. [Middle English fourtenight, alteration of fourtene night, fourteen nights : Old English f and that most of the rubbish was left by residents. "This lady looks after my children twice-a-week. She asked if I could help her move her settee down there and I said 'yes, I could do with getting rid of a few boxes'," he said. "If I thought it was illegal why would I leave boxes with my name on them? "I don't like fly-tipping and I get it a lot at the back of my house, but I didn't realise. They have just caned me for all the stuff the residents had put there." Angie Timms, senior environment officer at Coventry City Council, said: "Fly-tipping is very high profile, it is always in the news. "Residents are constantly reminded that it is illegal to fly-tip, that it is a criminal offence which carries a fine of up to pounds 50,000 and even imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. . "Waste should only be deposited at an authorised waste disposal site. Anyone who runs a business which transports waste needs to hold a waste transfer permit and provide waste transfer notes to their clients which show where the waste will be removed to. "If your waste is found flytipped you could be held responsible, receive a heavy fine and criminal record. It's not worth risking it by giving a man down the pub a tenner to take it off you." Anyone who has extra refuse can contact Street Services on 0500 83 433 who, for a small fee, can arrange to collect extra refuse or bulky bulk·y adj. bulk·i·er, bulk·i·est 1. Having considerable bulk; massive. 2. Of large size for its weight: a bulky knit. 3. Clumsy to manage; unwieldy. items. CAPTION(S): ANGRY...David Ogilvie was convicted of dumping waste |
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