{"id":309117,"date":"2025-08-01T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309117\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:32:10","slug":"man-fined-for-not-picking-up-dog-poo-in-stoke-gifford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309117\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fined for not picking up dog poo in Stoke Gifford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Harry Watkins, aged 30, was found guilty of multiple breaches of a public space protection order &#8211; also known as a PSPO &#8211; relating to dog fouling in Stoke Gifford.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Watkins was first issued a fixed penalty notice in July 2024 after his dog was seen fouling on the green in Flatts Close near his home address.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, between September 3 and November 19, 2024, 17 further incidents of dog fouling were captured on CCTV in the same communal garden area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Watkins was identified as the dog\u2019s owner and invited to attend an interview with South Gloucestershire Council under caution, where he admitted ownership and sole responsibility for the dog.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Watkins appeared at Bristol Magistrates\u2019 Court on 21 July 2025, where he was fined \u00a3380, ordered to pay a surcharge of \u00a3128, and costs of \u00a3599 &#8211; a total of \u00a31,107.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cllr Sean Rhodes, SGC cabinet member for environmental enforcement said: \u201cThe vast majority of owners clean up after their dogs, so I hope this prosecution serves as a warning to the small minority who aren\u2019t as responsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Watkins, aged 30, was found guilty of multiple breaches of a public space protection order &#8211; also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-309117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114953292829518809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}