What a lot of rubbish! Shocking pile dumped illegally in Dudley
Reaching almost 7ft high and piled with wood, plastic, soil, paint cans and rags weighing 400 tons – this is the eyesore of illegally dumped waste on a Black Country trading estate.
The rubbish left on land at Dormston Trading Estate in Dudley saw Allan Priest of Holy Road, Rowley Regis, jailed for eight months for allowing it to be dumped.
Today environment bosses said they would not hesitate to prosecute anyone else flouting the law in a similar way.
Wolverhampton Crown Court heard that Priest, aged 61, took out a lease in his own name at the trading estate in Burton Road in May last year on the understanding another party would drop rubbish on the land.
That was on the promise of £20,000 cash, the court was told. Priest admitted failing to comply with an enforcement notice by January 3 and operating a waste operation without a permit.
The court heard the clean-up bill would be around £60,000.
Priest was sentenced to another six months in prison to run consecutively for breaching a community order, leaving him with a combined jail term of 14 months.
