Leeds City Council has announced it has successfully prosecuted a man responsible for several flytipping offences across Yorkshire.
The council's new serious environmental crime team (SECT) worked with Wakefield Council to prosecute Daniel Clayton, 29. Clayton pleaded guilty to a series of flytipping-related offences at Kirklees Magistrates Court, and was sentenced to 39 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months, as well as 300 hours unpaid work.
SECT officers originally discovered a huge pile of household waste, rubble and tiles off Crag Lane in Alwoodley. It was discovered the rubbish had belonged to a resident in Garforth - when officers interviewed the resident it was found they had paid £120 to a company called Total Waste and Recycling to dispose of it.
