A Bristol woman has been fined more than £600 after failing to properly dispose of her cigarette butt outside a local supermarket in Staple Hill. Terie Green of Arnold Road, Mangotsfield, was ordered to pay a total of £1,483 after South Gloucestershire Council prosecuted her for littering last November.
She was spotted throwing away a cigarette end as she walked towards a local supermarket by South Gloucestershire Council’s Street Enforcement Officers who were on uniformed patrol on Broad Street in Staple Hill. Green was issued with a Fixed Penalty Notice for the offence and provided her personal details.
After failing to pay the fee, the offence progressed to Bristol Magistrates Court but she failed to attend the hearing earlier this week. She was subsequently convicted in her absence and ordered to pay a fine of £660, along with £559 in costs and a £264 victim surcharge.
