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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Steven Morris

Welsh first minister hopeful accepted £200k from waste offender’s firm

Vaughan Gething
The Welsh Labour leadership contender Vaughan Gething at the Butetown community centre in Cardiff Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/Athena Pictures/The Guardian

Vaughan Gething’s campaign to become the new Welsh first minister has had a setback after it emerged that he accepted a £200,000 donation from a company run by a man convicted of environmental offences.

David John Neal was given a three-month suspended prison sentence in 2013 for illegally dumping waste on the environmentally sensitive Gwent Levels in south Wales.

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