Andrew Parker evaded justice but has now been hauled before court
The tyres were dumped on the land of a former pub in south Manchester(Image: Manchester City Council)
A fly-tipper dumped heaps of tyres on waste land in south Manchester and then failed to attend court on numerous occasions.
Andrew Parker evaded justice after dumping tyres after he had been ‘offered £300’. He discarded them on the grounds of a former pub on Mill Lane, Northenden which was reported to the police and then to the council in September 2020.
The initial report from a security guard had identified a white transit van which the police later spotted in Didsbury.
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Mr Parker was pulled over by the police and admitted the incident saying he had been paid £300 by a garage in Withington to dispose of them, Manchester Magistrate’s Court heard.
He was told to collect the tyres but told the security guard when he returned to the site that he couldn’t collect them as his van was already full of tyres.
He later failed to attend meetings set up by the Council’s Environmental Crimes team twice, Manchester City Council said.
In December 2020, the same police officer spotted an overweight transit van on Sale Road, Brooklands. Mr Parker was driving the van when the police pulled it over again, although this was a different registration to the van involved in the previous incident in September.
The van full of garden waste(Image: Manchester City Council)
The van was overloaded with garden waste, and he did not offer a suitable explanation as to why he had the waste and admitted that he did not have a waste carrier’s license. Additional checks on the vehicle confirmed that the vehicle registration did not match the van’s identification number – the VIN number – and that the vehicle was not insured so the van was seized.
This evidence was again given to the Council’s Environmental Crimes Team for further investigation and Mr Parker was given the opportunity to give his account under caution, on two separate occasions but he failed to reply, and a file was prepared for court.
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He had failed to attend court several times, and several warrants had been executed to bring him before the courts, where he was held before entering a guilty plea to all offences.
Parker, 38 of Marple Road, Stockport, later pleaded guilty to fly-tipping under section 33, of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, and to failing to produce a waste carrier licence under section 5 Control of Pollution (Amendment) Act 1989 at Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court.
He additionally pleaded guilty to offences under the Bail Act 1974, due to his continued failure to comply with bail conditions.
He was sentenced after committing two environmental offences and has been ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work. He also now must pay costs of £600 and a £95 victims of crime surcharge.
Councillor Lee Ann Igbon, Executive Member for Vibrant Neighbourhoods, said: “It’s beggars’ belief that people think that they can get away with deliberate fly-tipping, blighting our communities and harming the environment.
“Our officers work extremely hard to bring perpetrators before the law and as this investigation shows, the offender will have to pay a hefty fine and hopefully this will make potential fly-tippers think twice before dumping rubbish illegally in Manchester.
“We will always do everything we can to bring offenders to justice.”