A South Tyneside man has been fined following a flytipping incident outside a Covid testing centre.
Richard Oliver, of Boldon Colliery, was fined £180 in his absence by South Tyneside Magistrates this week, as well as being ordered to pay £100 in costs and a £34 victim surcharge. The court heard how a substantial amount of waste, including an industrial air filter and sacks of domestic rubbish, was found abandoned illegally outside a PCR testing station in the car park of Temple Park Leisure Centre last August.
A number of letters among the waste led investigating officers from South Tyneside Council to Oliver’s address at Charles Street, Boldon Colliery. The council took legal action after the 34-year-old failed to make himself available to answer questions regarding the abandonment of the waste – an offence under section 110 of the Environment Act 1995.
