A council has fined a man for fly-tipping despite not even being in the country at the time. The man, who lives in the south of France, has been left puzzled after an East London Council handed him fly-tipping fines totalling £550
Ben Cormack, who moved to Bordeaux to live with his girlfriend earlier this year, has been accused by Newham Council of chucking rubbish in the street on two separate occasions in October 2022. He says is "physically impossible". He happened to come across the "completely bonkers" fines while recently visiting his home in East London, which he still owns, to pick up some stuff to take back to France with him, My London reports.
Ben said: "I have to pop to the UK every now and again, partly because I've been moving stuff and my family lives there. I just got these letters saying, 'we're fining you for fly-tipping'. It's astonishing. It would have been physically impossible for me to be anywhere close to Newham when these offences occurred."
