Jail for fly-tipper who got stuck in the mud
A bungling fly-tipper from Wolverhampton who dumped rubbish on a South Staffordshire field and was caught after his truck became stuck in the mud has been jailed.
Harminder Singh Dhillon was locked up for 24 weeks by magistrates at Cannock after emptying rubbish from his truck on to land at Cat and Kittens Lane, Featherstone. Chairman of the bench Mr Robert Evans told the 26-year-old, from Woodhouse Road North, Tettenhall: "You used your own vehicle in an area renowned for this problem.
"It involved refuse from the business where you had been working. No other punishment is appropriate."
The sentence was branded "manifestly excessive" by defence solicitor Sundip Murria, who immediately lodged an appeal to Stafford Crown Court following yesterday's case.
Dhillon and 18-year-old Jamie Jackson dumped an industrial wheelie bin full of debris from Sponge Bobs, the unregistered car wash business in East Road, Cannock where they worked.
They also hurled bags of rubbish on to the ground before the wet field foiled their escape on February 11.
Miss Venice Archer-Dyer, prosecuting, told the court: "Police arrived to find them in the cab of a recovery vehicle they had called to the scene to get them out. The council then had to spend taxpayers' money clearing up the mess."
Dhillon was described as the "real villain" by Mr Rob Govier, defending Jackson, when the teenager from Russell Road, Bilston, was last month given a 12-month community order with 150 hours of unpaid work and £260 costs for fly-tipping. Both were convicted of the offence after trial.
