Warwick, England: The head of a Warwickshire company has been given 18 months for illegally depositing waste at a Ryton Farm.
John Bruce pleaded guilty to the unauthorised deposits and also admitted failing to comply with an order disqualifying him from managing a company.
The offences relate to August 2005 when the owner of Ryton Fields Farm observed UK Plant lorries tipping soil on his land without his permission. UK Plant is Mr Bruce’s company.
The unauthorized deposits amounted to in excess of 400 tonnes and were estimated to have saved around £3000 in tipping fees
It was revealed in Court that Mr Bruce had been fined £5,000 in 1999 for illegally depositing contaminated waste including asbestos. Further, in 2002 he was jailed for six months following a breach of an undertaking not to deposit waste on specified land.
Mr Bruce claimed that he had been told about the site and had understood that he could tip there without any problem. In mitigation it was said that the site where material was deposited was not an area of natural beauty. It had already been used for the depositing of waste.
Mr Bruce was also disqualified from being a company director for 10 years.