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Three people prosecuted by court for fly-tipping offences in the Goole area

Wednesday, 24 July 2024

Three people have been fined by a court for fly-tipping offences in the Goole area – some of which were caught on CCTV camera.

Mark Scamp, of Selby Road, Leeds, Strachan Kingsley Wood-Smith, of no fixed address, and a woman from Goole – who can’t be named for legal reasons – all pleaded guilty to illegally disposing waste which together included a bed frame, mattresses, a sofa and carpet underlay.

Prosecutions were brought by East Riding of Yorkshire Council and were all dealt with at Beverley Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 17 July.

Mark Scamp

Scamp was fined £200 and was ordered to pay £595.28 costs and an £80 victim surcharge, for dumping a mattress and carpet underlay in a layby off the A614 near East Cowick.

The court heard a remote CCTV camera recorded a van owned by Scamp stop at the layby and a carpet being thrown from it, onto the ground, on 15 May 2023.

Streetscene enforcement officers from the council investigated and invited Scamp to attend an interview. As he refused, the case was taken to court.

Strachan Kingsley Wood-Smith

Wood-Smith was fined £40 and was ordered to pay £200 costs and a £16 victim surcharge. The magistrates imposed a low penalty because of his personal circumstances.

The court heard CCTV cameras recorded Wood-Smith taking part of a sofa from the back of a house in Weatherill Street, Goole, and dumping it further up the access road, between Milton Street and Byron Street in Goole on 7 May 2023.

He was then seen again on CCTV, on 17 December last year, dumping more parts of a sofa in the same access road.

Streetscene enforcement officers from the council investigated and invited Wood-Smith to attend an interview, but he did not respond, so the case was taken to court.

Goole woman

A woman from Goole was fined £120 and was ordered to pay £200 costs and a £48 victim surcharge.

The court heard a large pile of waste including a bed frame, mattress, parasol, cardboard, broken glass, clothes and other items were found dumped next to wheelie bins in an access road between Alexandra Street and Edinburgh Street, Goole, around 26 April last year.

Following investigations, streetscene enforcement officers interviewed a Goole woman who admitted putting the waste in the alleyway, but she claimed she had intended to get someone to collect it later.

The woman had previously been issued a fixed penalty for a similar incident in 2020 so the case was passed straight to court.

Residents are responsible for disposing of their own waste properly and legally by using household wheelie bins provided or by taking larger items of waste to their local household waste recycling site – the nearest to Goole is the Airmyn site.

For larger loads they can also hire a licensed waste carrier to take the rubbish away, or they can use the council’s own bulky waste collection service.

Carl Skelton, director of streetscene services at East Riding of Yorkshire Council, said: “Our team uses a number of mobile CCTV cameras such as the ones used in these court cases to film those responsible in the act of fly-tipping.

“We also rely on the public to report fly-tipping to the council. We continue to investigate all fly-tipping incidents reported to us and always take action when we can.”

Anyone caught fly-tipping could be ordered to pay a fixed penalty of up to £1,000 or the case could be taken to court, where they face an unlimited fine or even imprisonment.

Fly-tipping information:

For more information or to report any fly-tipping or suspicious activity to the council, contact 01482 393939 or at www.eastriding.gov.uk/fly-tipping

People are asked not to touch any fly-tipped waste or approach anyone they see fly-tipping. 

To find your nearest household waste recycling site visit www.eastriding.gov.uk/recycling

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